When Harper meets Blair

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Maybe Harper can inquire how the British Forces can allow the BBC stream the arrival home of their service personnel killed in the recent crash of a Lynx helicopter in Iraq without a catastrophic loss of morale and without traumatising their families?

Maybe even Blair, well known as a control freak, has more real confidence in his electorate than the increasingly twitchy Harper has in the Canadian public?

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talk talk talk / Shireen said…
Brits are supposed to be tough. Heck, if they can live in cold, damp weather 24/7, they can live with tragedy. Blair doesn't need to worry about his electorate becoming a bunch of pansies...or at least so says the mythology of my family!
Fri May 19, 05:29:00 pm GMT-4
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