"While the chairmen were lauding Dean as the architect of Democratic victories, some liberals hundreds of miles to the north _ and across an international border _ were not impressed. Members of Canada's out-of-power Liberal Party were in a snit over the selection of Dean to give the keynote address to at their upcoming convention to elect a national leader. An unsuccessful U.S. presidential candidate has no place telling Canadians how to elections, they complained.
''I, as a Canadian, am appalled to have an American loser address a keynote convention that will choose Canada's next prime minister,'' Ray Heard, former Liberal Party communications director, told CTV television on Thursday..." Associated Press