PARIS – Standing beside French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin and with a sabre-armed French honour guard next to him, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had this to say about those who have said Canada has acted too slowly to extract an estimated 40,000 Canadian citizens in Lebanon:
“There have been literally hundreds of federal employees working day and night for the past several days to put in place the largest evacuation of Canadian citizens from another country in our history.”