Frank McKenna
Frank McKenna
Francis Joseph "Frank" McKenna, PC OC ONB QCis a Canadian businessman and former politician and diplomat. He is currently Deputy Chairman of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. He served as Canadian Ambassador to the United States from 2005 to 2006. He served as the 27th Premier of New Brunswick from 1987 to 1997, winning every seat in the province in his first election...
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It's like playing a game of poker and, if you lose the hand, saying, 'Let's negotiate the pie.' It doesn't work that way. You lose the hand, you pay the money, then you go on to the next hand.
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If that were the case, then why did you bring the appeal? ... Why did you carry it through? It's like playing a game of poker and if you lose the hand, saying well, let's negotiate the pie.
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the equivalent of someone standing on street corners, turning in jaywalkers, and then getting the fine money.
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If this was poker, we won the pot, and now the U.S. wants to negotiate with us over how to divide it. The time for negotiation has passed.
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It took on a life of its own, like a viral infection,
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It wouldn't be right to return to the table and negotiate a formal agreement absent a tangible demonstration of respect for what Canada has accomplished in the quasi-judicial system.
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Your country is very close to my heart now. I, for one, will never forget the compassion expressed by Canadians in so many different ways.
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It is emotional, just because so many people seemed to hold such high hopes for me.
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The U.S. has to do something tangible to show respect for the process,
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After I finished in Washington . . . the idea of doing something full-time again became very attractive.
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tremendous amount of response from police around the area.
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We were right at it the weekend of the election getting ready to try to paper this thing, we were that close.
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You can't carry out your appeal all the way to conclusion and then say when you lose, 'Well, that doesn't count,'