Canada will not consider boycotting Beijing Olympics: PM
9/4/2008 18:04
Canada has not discussed boycotting the Beijing Olympics nor does it plan
to do so, Prime Minister Stephen Harper said yesterday.
"There has been no
cabinet discussion of this. No cabinet discussion is planned. I don't anticipate
any kind of boycott of the Games themselves," Harper told a news conference in
Ottawa.
Harper said he does not expect any other countries will stay away
from the Summer Games.
"Experience would suggest that such boycotts are
generally not effective and really in the end only harm the athletes involved
who have trained for so many years to compete in these events. So I don't see
either in this country or internationally a push for that," he said.
Harper
reiterated that Ottawa will send a high-level delegation to the opening ceremony
in Beijing.
Xinhua
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