Martin sees aggressive, active foreign policy

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Vancouver — Canada's days as simply an honest broker between the world's big powers is over, Prime Minister Paul Martin said Friday.

“The role of traditional mediator that Canada has played consistently between great powers is not the foreign policy that I would envisage,” he told a meeting of B.C. civic leaders.

“That's why it is so counterproductive when one nation decides to flout the rules,” he said. “NAFTA is not something to be ignored just because it suits narrow domestic interests.”

“Unfortunately the reaction of the United States in the face of the latest NAFTA panel decision on softwood lumber mocks that principle, and in so doing it sends the wrong message to the world.”

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Or in other words B*sh, find another mediator or linchpin.