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To: paul_philp who wrote (58949)	11/26/2002 2:01:52 PM
From: gamesmistress	Respond to of 281500

In the final touch of irony, Madame Duclos was Chretien's director of communications. I'm suprised it wasn't public relations. :-) Canadian Who Called Bush 'Moron' Quits Source: Associated Press Publication date: 2002-11-26 OTTAWA (AP) - One of the prime minister's top aides has stepped down after referring to U.S. President George W. Bush as a "moron." "To avoid continuing controversy, Francoise Ducros has decided to leave her position as director of communications in the Prime Minister's Office and accelerate by some weeks her planned return to the public service from which she had been seconded," Percy Downe, chief of staff, said in a statement Tuesday. Ducros sparked a storm last week when she referred to Bush as a "moron" in a private conversation with a reporter in the media room at the NATO summit in Prague. The comment was overheard by another reporter who published the remark. Opposition politicians had been calling for Prime Minister Jean Chretien to dump Ducros, saying the comment hurt relations with the U.S. They noted that an Iraqi newspaper had cited the remark as proof the U.S. president is "the most hated person in the world." Ducros apologized for her comment last week and offered to resign, but Chretien rejected her resignation at that time. But in a letter of resignation to Chretien on Tuesday, Ducros wrote: "It is very apparent to me that the controversy will make it impossible for me to do my job." Chretien accepted the resignation, responding in a letter: "In your almost four years as director of communications, you have served the government as a whole, and me personally, with extraordinary skill and dedication." Ducros is being replaced by Jim Munson on an interim basis.