These bits of video embedded from the 680 News YouTube account show Foreign Affairs Minister Freeland addressing the media on Canada’s goals in the forthcoming NAFTA talks with the US and Mexico. It’s not unfair to the minister to say no one would have much expectation of her ability to tell us very much. The future is unclear. She makes pro forma nods to job creation, shredding red tape, the national interest and a mystery challenge, the intention to be progressive. What was more tangible was the minister’s style. It was generally rather rushed and with limited feeling for her words.
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Premier Wynne, speaking at the Pakistan Consulate on the country’s 70th anniversary, no doubt said all the right things with a command of her prepared remarks becoming of any politician. Her theme of how our Mid-Atlantic morality for peace among diverse communities continues to be shaken was cause for hope and sadness. Pakistan is the creation of an iron-willed man, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who would not brook the inclusion of his followers inside a diverse integrated sub-continent.
