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              I know the Prime Minister has de facto authority over military matters, but Parliament needs to ok international trade agreements do they not?  I seem to recall, barely, Congress and Parliament both being required to ratify the CAN-US free trade agreement in 1989, with a number of...

No he is not right. First - on the legal derivation of the word 'legitimate', it is the MP's that turn agreements into law. Regardless, DION IS NOT NEGOTIATING A TREATY. Second - what happens internationally effects local ridings, this is why MP's, and MPP's, from all sorts of parties go to...

What does that mean? You said the the PM was the "sole legitimate voice for Canada" ...... I argued, and it seems successfully that you were wrong. MP's turn agreements into law. Or if you are a a person hung up on technicalities, the Queen does so. 'Subvert' is very hyberbolic seeing as he...

The Edmonton Journal - 19th of Jul, 2005 pg. A7 WASHINGTON - Conservative Leader Stephen Harper told an international gathering of conservative political leaders Monday he would take Canada more deeply into the U.S.-led war on terrorism, and would create a national security commissioner to...

       It is not unusual for MP's from other parties to be involved in negotiations, and recall many countries require a body of legislators to pass or reject certain types of, if not all, international agreements.  Thus all the lawmakers, the legislators, could/should well be considered...

                This blown way out of proportion.  You think the people at the U.N. don't know Dion isn't the Prime Minister.  Opposition MP's often travel, often attend conferences aboard, often make statements at international events critisizing the governmental policies.  This is normal...

    She probably understood very well that there would be strict limits on her conduct, she better than most I would imagine.  I also expect that she, others in Sudan, and several billion people worldwide would not have expected her life to be jeopardized by a teddy bear.  I have never deployed...

Yeah, I like it stickied.  Having a forum just for Ruxted would restrict the natural 'mixing' of ideas and likely just duplicate some threads.

Boarder services got by for a long time without guns didn't they.

In Soviet Russia, bear names you.

And it gets, you guessed it, even worse.....http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/africa/11/30/sudan.bears/index.html "Hundreds of angry protesters, some waving ceremonial swords from trucks equipped with loud speakers, gathered Friday outside the presidential palace to denounce a teacher whose class...

...or Harpers plan to solve it by cutting taxes.    :P

Edward,       I agree that they will attempt to pursue national interests, but the process by which those are choosen is not always very straight forward, you allude to this tension in your first and second points.  Regarding the third point, can you flesh that out a bit. I don't see...

Thanks for the info. Did you have any further thoughts related to Iran?

        What do you do you think CougarDaddy? As you say there may be some latent 'expansionistic' tendencies within CCP leadeship, there is certainly mistrust of the U.S. inside the PLA and the Military Commision .  As I noted, I'm not convinced that there is any potential for serious, direct...

    Hong Kong and Macau aren't like SAR's, they are SAR's.  And the PRC does have direct control over them, but they are permited to maintain their current system for 50 years post assimilation under the 'one country two system's ' addition to the 1982 constitution ( made BTW with an aim to coax...

To get things back on topic a bit...                            China no doubt has very significant energy interests in Iran, this is common knowledge.  It is also true that China now holds more international 'weight' than it has in the past couple hundered years, also common knowledge.  It is...

As Bill Maher said "...if your TGIF is a beheading, you're bringing up the rear of civilization"

What Quagmire said. I thought it was just a little bit ignorant on the subject of poverty.

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