mccain visits canada

You may be aware that U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain was in Ottawa today speaking to the Economic Club of Canada. Canada has been coming up in the presidential campaign relatively frequently as of late, what with the so-called NAFTA-gate controversy and the Democrats’ continuing promises to renegotiate NAFTA if they win the White House.

I was interested in hearing the American perspective on the visit and found a tidbit about it on CNN.com:

At the Economic Club of Toronto in Ottawa, McCain said that while there “aren’t any electoral votes to be won up here in the middle of a presidential election … there are many shared interests that require our attention today, and many Canadians here I am very proud to call friends.”

Sigh. It would be funny if it weren’t so cliché.