Tories find right-minded friends in New York

[CHIMO]

NEW YORK—Canada's Conservative party has a lively contingent at the Republican National Convention here, waving the flag for the Canadian right and picking up some electoral strategy from George W. Bush's party.

John Reynolds, the Conservative party House leader, says he and five colleagues have met with Republican officials and the likes of U.S. Trade Representative Robert Zoellick and Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel, touted as a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2008.

They are here as part of an international coalition founded in 1983 by the late U.S. president Ronald Reagan and then-British prime minister Margaret Thatcher to promote conservative thought worldwide.

Besides Reynolds, foreign affairs critic and former Canadian Alliance leader Stockwell Day, Alberta MPs Jason Kenney and Rob Anders, former Ontario health minister Tony Clement and onetime Progressive Conservative party president Peter Van Loan are here.


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Truth is stranger than fiction.

[politicat]

1. Let's arrange a ... hostage exchange??

All you labor and progressives come down here, and we'll send our repukes up to join your Tories in... you think 1000 square km of Alberta would hold them??

(We gotta keep the Maritimes and BC.... )

Pcat

[Hand]

2. Blech....

Now there's an axis of evil for you!

:puke:

[ironflange]

3. Here's a good deal for you

If you keep any or all of those douchebags next time they come visit, we'll let you keep Celine Dion and that damn baby of hers too.

[Hand]

4. Better yet...

We'll even throw in Howie Mandel!!!

:puke: