Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

The beaver, which has come to represent Canada as the eagle does the United States and the lion Britain, is a flat-tailed, slow-witted, toothy rodent known to bite off it's own testicles or to stand under its own falling trees.

Canada is disappointed that the WTO compliance panel has found that the United States complied with its WTO obligations.

The two teams that were notable disappointments, Canada and the United States, had mostly veteran players. That was an issue.

It is still a long way to go to catch up to the United States and Canada. I don't know if (it can be done).

The United States and Canada must immediately reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions to slow the damage.