VOL. XLVII

No 03

19-January-2004

IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION

Bush Says Canadian Firms May Bid In Next Round Of Iraq Contracts

In what may come to be a policy reversal, US President George W Bush has told Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin that Canadian firms may bid in the next round of contracts put to tender for the reconstruction of Iraq. In December, the Bush administration announced that countries that had opposed the war against Iraq, such as Canada, France, Germany and Russia, would be barred...