Bush's legacy cuts at the Can-Am core

Globe and Mail by Lawrence Martin | Jan. 12, 2009 (Comment)

George W. Bush is already ranked by historians, pundits, scholars, scuba divers and bellhops as an appalling president. His any remaining narcissism has surely been obliterated, so no need to pile on. But in the continental context, there's his impact on Canada. How does he measure up in bilateral terms against other presidents?

The news isn't good. Mr. Bush may well go down as the worst president Canada ever knew. His chief bilateral legacy is ... Full Story »

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by Gregory Kruse - Jan. 16, 2009

It is interesting, and starts off with a tone of humor, which then turns into a list of bad U.S. Presidents and tells why Canadians didn't like them, and then ends too soon. One commenter wonders why the writer and paper took so long to publish an article like this. It doesn't take much courage to jump on the pile when you actually have to jump to get on the pile.

There should have been nothing but contempt for Bush in Canada since he taunted them with the inane threat just after 9/11 that if Canada wasn't "with" the U.S. on the Iraq invasion, then they were "against" us.