Thursday, September 20, 2012

State Department: No secret plan to invade Canada - World News

By Ian Johnston, NBC News

The U.S. and Mexico are not secretly planning to invade Canada, a State Department spokeswoman confirmed to laughter during a daily press briefing.

Spokeswoman Victoria Nuland was taking questions from journalists about its activities Tuesday, which included a meeting between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Mexico Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa.


She was asked about ?a signing ceremony? with Espinosa ? what was being signed and why was the ceremony not open to the press.

?I think it?s an update on Merida, but I will get that for you,? Nuland reported, referring to the Merida Initiative to fight organized crime.

The journalist asked, ?This isn?t some secret thing ? to invade Canada or something like that??

Amid laughter, Nuland replied: ?No, no, no. It?s not anything classified.?

The U.S. did draw up a secret plan to invade Canada in 1935, codenamed ?War Plan Red,? some of which was accidentally published by mistake and reported by The New York Times. ?

A U.S. invasion of Canada also featured in the film, "Canadian Bacon," starring John Candy, Alan Alda and Rhea Perlman, and the movie South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, which included the song "Blame Canada."

There is also a website called www.invadecanada.us, which lists reasons such as connecting the mainland U.S. with Alaska, ?they?re just a little too proud,? and ?they stole our basketball teams.??

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Source: http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/19/13957722-state-department-no-secret-plan-to-invade-canada

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