Post by Jaga on Apr 12, 2008 8:44:15 GMT -7
IS THERE a link between NATO and the travails of a Halifax investor in Poland?
No, there isn’t – except in a travel route way.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper went to Bucharest, Romania, a week ago to attend this year’s NATO summit.
After it ended, he moved on for a visit in Poland, a fellow NATO member, for bilateral talks with Prime Minister Donald Tusk. More on that later.
Canada’s relations with Poland have not been as good as they could have been over the years. In the past, many Poles saw Canada as indifferent to, maybe even tolerant of, communist thuggery; and Grit and Tory governments alike treated Poland as marginally interesting, at best.
Perhaps it took the tragedy of Robert Dziekanski, the Polish traveller Tasared to death at Vancouver’s airport last October, and Canada’s desperate need for helicopters to take Canadian soldiers off Afghanistan’s ambush-ripe roads to press Ottawa and Warsaw into a closer engagement.
thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/9006243.html
No, there isn’t – except in a travel route way.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper went to Bucharest, Romania, a week ago to attend this year’s NATO summit.
After it ended, he moved on for a visit in Poland, a fellow NATO member, for bilateral talks with Prime Minister Donald Tusk. More on that later.
Canada’s relations with Poland have not been as good as they could have been over the years. In the past, many Poles saw Canada as indifferent to, maybe even tolerant of, communist thuggery; and Grit and Tory governments alike treated Poland as marginally interesting, at best.
Perhaps it took the tragedy of Robert Dziekanski, the Polish traveller Tasared to death at Vancouver’s airport last October, and Canada’s desperate need for helicopters to take Canadian soldiers off Afghanistan’s ambush-ripe roads to press Ottawa and Warsaw into a closer engagement.
thechronicleherald.ca/Opinion/9006243.html