1. Ekos Research poll for the newspaper La Presse and Toronto Star, March 21, 2003 ( http://www.ekos.com , April 9, 2003).
2. IPSOS Reid poll, April 6, 2003, “Canada and the Iraq War: Two Solitudes Emerge.” Nationally, equal numbers support (48%) and oppose (48%) the U.S.-led military action against Iraq. However, the majority (54%) of English Canadians now support war, while just 29% in Quebec do. Half (51%) of Canadians support offering help to the Coalition — every six out often (58%) in English Canada support move compared to only 28% in Quebec.
3. CRIC Press Release, April 9, 2003, “Canadians Differ from Americans on UN, Iraq,” highlights an Environics poll in March 2003, showing that 80% of Canadian respondents see the United Nations contributing a great deal to world peace versus 59% of American respondents answering YES in a similar poll, and 66% favoring the peaceful disarmament of Iraq vs. 46% of American respondents. ( http://www.cric.ca/en_html/publications/sondages_cric.html , April 9, 2003)
4. CBC Website, Speech by U.S. ambassador to Canada A. Paul Cellucci to the Economic Club of Toronto, March 25, 2003.
5. Canada was to be “the link which binds the United States to the British Empire.” T.C. Davis, Saskatchewan Attorney-General, 1938, cited in David Smith, The Republican Option in Canada. Past and Present, Toronto 1999, p. 30.