Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice from Lloyd Axworthy

This is great. Some excerpts:

I know it seems improbable to your divinely guided master in the White House that mere mortals might disagree with participating in a missile-defence system that has failed in its last three tests, even though the tests themselves were carefully rigged to show results.

...control-freak antics may work in the virtual one-party state that now prevails in Washington. But in Canada we have a residual belief that politicians should be subject to a few checks and balances, an idea that your country once espoused before the days of empire.

...as a friend on your border, we will offer a different, independent point of view. And that there are times when truth must speak to power.

( The whole thing, because links sometime go away... )

Canadian Trivia

http://www.cbc.ca/chillybeach/trivia/trivia26.swf

Try it. On three games I ended up with an aggregate total of 29/30. My Canadianness is obscene.