>I watched an episode of the Canadian tv show 'The National' last night and it appears there is a lot of dialog going on in the Canadian government regarding the war (just like in the U.S. before it started). I was surprised that many supported the U.S. and want to step in now to back us (Ottawa was mentioned specifically) but others are fighting vehemently to stay out of it. I always understood that almost all of the provinces wanted to stay clear of it entirely.

Tracy,
There are Canadians on both sides of the issue, but the majority are with the Prime Minister in the position that this was a U.N. decision to be made and not a U.S. one.
The Premier of my province (a Conservative party member, the Prime Minister being a (federal) Liberal party member) favours the U.S. position and is quite pi**ed that Canada took a U.N.-related position. So has the Premier of Alberta, another Conservative. I haven't heard as regards other provinces' leaders.
In Ottawa our "official opposition" (such as it is) has basically flip-flopped on the issue and NOW is incensed that Canada has not supported the U.S. position.

A related 'problem' is that our Minister of Foreign Affairs yesterday stated publicly that 'of course we support the U.S. objectives. Saddam is an evil man who has to go' and the opposition jumped all over him because that contradicted a statement by the P.M. that 'declaring regime chnge is a problem... after all where does it stop'. But then we ALL knew/know that war with Iraq meant Saddam would go and it didn't need to be stated and this was so whether sanctioned by the U.N. or not.

My personal point of view is that President Bush, by manipulation of (him by) the cabal for war on the world, has emasculated the U.N. I think I heard talk today that President Bush even wants the "humanitarian effort" to be a strictly coalition activity outside of the U.N. For the U.N. to survive I believe it will have to treat the U.S. as a pariah regime out of step with the rest of the world.