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...Stephen Harper making his first foreign trip to George W. Bush's Texas ranch or even to Washington. The first overseas journey for Canada's newly sworn-in Prime Minister is likely to take him to Afghanistan. "He wants to go where Canadians are on the front lines today in the war on global terrorism," says an Ottawa source familiar with the new government's thinking on foreign policy. "One of the first briefings he got was from the defense staff on the role Canada was playing in Afghanistan, so a trip there would be very symbolic...
...would be. But symbolic of what, exactly? Foreign affairs, aside from a few cheap shots at the U.S., barely rated a mention during the last campaign, and Harper has not rushed to fill that gap so far. The new government's five priorities remain domestic ones: cleaning up official corruption, shortening medical wait times, cutting the gst, helping families afford child care and toughening crime laws. The Tories promised a made-in-Canada foreign policy in 2004 that was unclear beyond calling for higher defense spending, and they were similarly vague in 2006. There are no grand Harper world visions...
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...Catherine Keener: Deflowered a 40-Year-Old Virgin, safeguarded The Interpreter, disrupted The Ballad of Jack and Rose and earned a nod for playing prim Harper Lee in Capote...
...Liberals in such a rush? Party leaders say they don't want to give Prime Minister-designate Stephen Harper too much time to consolidate his national support. "The longer we wait to choose a leader, the more problems we'll have," says an Ontario strategist who declines to be identified by name...