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Canada-U.S. relations strong despite WikiLeaks, Cannon says”

The U.S. diplomatic cables made public in a massive Wikileaks release are “raw material” that doesn’t reflect foreign policy, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon said at a news conference Monday.
he leaks by the whistle-blowing website Wikileaks are “deplorable,” he said, but won’t damage U.S.-Canadian relations.
Cannon said he had received “sketches” of cables about Canada and dismissed them as “not that significant.” He shrugged off a cable that is expected to say Canada has an inferiority complex as something that many pundits have observed. And he said he is “not concerned” about a U.S. State Department cable to the U.S. Embassy in Canada and other countries requesting they collect personal data on United Nations dignitaries. Question about such instructions should be addressed to the U.S., he said.

At the same time, Cannon emphasized at two news conferences within three hours of each other, one in Gatineau, Que. in his riding, and the other on Parliament Hill, that the WikiLeaks release of raw communications by diplomats is “deplorable.”
These leaked documents that pertain to Canada are, in my view, it’s not something that will harm our relations,” he added. “I do find it deplorable though that documents are leaked in this fashion, but I want to reassure everybody that I don’t think this is going to change the strong relationship that we have with the United States.”