I sent a résumé off to Victoria today, only this time I'm not talking about the capitol of British Columbia, but the Australian state. Today's winner in the "what city will I send a résumé to today" lottery is Melbourne.

This is great. Some excerpts:

I know it seems improbable to your divinely guided master in the White House that mere mortals might disagree with participating in a missile-defence system that has failed in its last three tests, even though the tests themselves were carefully rigged to show results.

...control-freak antics may work in the virtual one-party state that now prevails in Washington. But in Canada we have a residual belief that politicians should be subject to a few checks and balances, an idea that your country once espoused before the days of empire.

...as a friend on your border, we will offer a different, independent point of view. And that there are times when truth must speak to power.