The Globe reports Paul Martin has recently upset the whitehouse by stating on Thursday:
Mr. Martin chastised the United States at the UN conference on climate change on Wednesday as “reticent” for not ratifying the Kyoto accord. He also said the United States lacked a “global conscience.”
It then continues:
The Bush administration, reports suggest, was furious at the suggestion — considering it an infuriating, if cheap, electioneering ploy focused solely on Canada’s Jan. 23 vote.
But according to a spokesperson for the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), the meeting was constructive, not confrontational
I believe what Paul Martin has said is something that the majority of the entire world outside the US thinks - however it is an unappropriate situation. I agree with the whitehouse - it was a cheap shot to get some anti-US votes here in the Canada away from the NDP’s.