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| Bush’s Cancelled Visit a Purposeful Rebuke to Ottawa; Landry’s Defeat Because of PQ Weakness and Charest’s Acumen, Chretien Gets No Credit CIBC/Chamber Weekly CEO/Business Leader Pollby COMPAS in the Financial Post |
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| This week’s web-survey of business leaders and CEOs explored two recent political events—President Bush’ cancellation of his trip to Canada and the Quebec election. Coming during a week of American media attacks on perceived anti-Americanism in Canada , the cancellation of the Bush visit is seen by Canadian business leaders as a purposeful rebuke to this anti-Americanism. The White House meanwhile is biding its time until Jean Chretien’s successor takes office, say Canada’s business leaders. Canada’s business leaders are somewhat divided about how to go about repairing the Canada-U.S. relationship. In descending order of opinion, they are inclined to believe that fences would be mended if Paul Martin became Prime Minister, Canada sent aid to post-Saddam Iraq, Bush were defeated by a Democrat, and Stephen Harper became Prime Minister. On the topic of Quebec’s election of Jean Charest, most business leaders attribute the win to either the PQ’s losing steam or Charest’s acumen. Fewer than 1% of respondents are prepared to give credit to the Prime Minister for weakening the separatist movement. These are the key findings from the COMPAS/Financial Post business leader survey conducted under the sponsorship of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. |
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