Paul Martin doesn’t want to participate in missile defence, but still wants to be consulted by the US on whether to shoot down a hypothetical incoming missile:
Stockwell Day, the Conservative Party’s foreign affairs critic, laughed off Martin’s demand that Washington would have to alert Ottawa before taking out an incoming missile.
“These missiles are coming in at 4 kilometers ( 2.5 miles) a second, and if the president calls the 1-800 line and gets: `Press 1 if you want English, press 2 if you want French, press 0 if nobody’s there …’ I mean, it’s crazy.”
Day made a funny. Who knew he was capable of one?
Anyway, this is just Canada playing our usual game of handing over the dirty work to our southern neighbour and then criticizing it for not being squeaky clean. Nothing new here.