Sunday, February 27, 2005
 Canadian Press wire February 23, 2005: Canada's apparent decision to stay out of a North American missile-defence system has dumbfounded Americans... Washington's envoy to Ottawa said Wednesday.
"We don't get it," Paul Cellucci said in Toronto. . .
Washington had hoped Canada would would go further and participate in building the continental defence shield, an elaborate system that some worry could lead to weapons in space and an international arms race.
Cellucci compared the situation to one that occurred during the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S. He noted that it was a Canadian general at Norad who scrambled military jets under orders from Bush to shoot down a hijacked commercial aircraft headed for Washington.
Had that plane been flying over Canada, it would have fallen to the prime minister to make the decision to shoot it down, Cellucci said.
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