Kai Jones,
President Bush's reluctance to speak in front of Parliament has been a feature on the CBC news for the past week or so. You gotta understand that the source for the speculation is Stephen Harper — the leader of the Conservative party. That would be the pro-U.S., right-ish wing end of the Canadian political spectrum. The leader of the New Democrat Party, Jack Layton, wrote a polite letter to Mr. Bush expressing his disappointment that the latter would not be addressing Parliament.
According to the Winnipeg Sun, a U.S. official said "Frankly we don't want to be booed."
The word "heckling" seems have entered the discussion Mr. Harper. I suspect that he was referring to what happened when Svend Robinson (when he was fiery and less pathetic) heckled Regan when the latter last visited Parliament, and to concerns over what the...outspoken Mississauga Member of Parliament Carolyn Parrish (she who ground an effigy underfoot on national TV) might do. I can find no references to any member of Mr. Bush's entourage using the word "heckle" or the word "afraid."
Certainly this morning he made it clear that while he was willing to "explain" the U.S. war on Iraq nobody had any cause to "debate" it with him. A paraphrase would go roughly thus "We went in, and made the U.S. safer, and I don't need to discuss that with anyone." (He did not "explain" precisely how the war in Iraq has made the U.S. safer, either. Which is sad, because I was wonderin'.)
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