Out of the loop

So much for Harper's closer relationship with Bush leading to Canada having a better idea what's going on in the U.S. On the same day that the U.S. Senate voted to extend by a year and a half the legislative deadline for a new border-crossing procedure, Wilson could only speculate that the existing deadline is "still not certain" - while claiming fairly comically that we'll to figure out what documents will be involved in order to set any new timetable.

Granted, Wilson's recognition that the deadline can change is a step up from Stockwell Day's apparent unquestioning acceptance of the original deadline. But there's still no reason to be optimistic our representative to the U.S. is the slightest bit in tune with what's actually going on - no matter how much the U.S. prefers the Cons' overtures to the Libs' confrontation.