Ha Ha HaPrime Minister Stephen Harper says he's "nobody's puppet" and U.S. President George W. Bush doesn't pull his strings.
"I see from time to time that the Liberals and members of the Bloc say that I am George Bush's puppet and other things like that," Harper said in a wide-ranging television interview with Radio-Canada that will air Sunday. "Even if I think that people don't always agree with me, they understand that I'm nobody's puppet," Harper told the French-language program Les Coulisses de pouvoir.
Harper has been criticized by his political adversaries and some commentators for being too cosy with Bush on issues such as the Kyoto Protocol and the military.
Harper also said during the interview that some Canadians don't understand that terrorism is a global threat.
"I think that a lot of people in Canada are naive," he said. "The reality is that the terrorism threat is worldwide. We cannot escape it by closing our eyes.
"That's the reason why we've have been in Afghanistan for several years. We are there because of the deaths of about 30 Canadians in the World Trade Centre (during the 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City)," he said.
As for recent threats against him by the 17 terrorists suspects arrested in Toronto earlier this month, Harper said the threats haven't "bothered" him.
I have not seen anything otherwise to prove to me he is not Bush's puppet.
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