[news] Frank McKenna considered front-runner to be Canada's ambassador to US

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After an awkward year-long delay, Prime Minister Paul Martin is on the threshold of sending to Washington the man he believes will best defend and promote Canadian interests at the epicentre of world affairs. Long considered a potential successor to Martin as Liberal leader, McKenna also has close personal and business links to the Bush family inner circle. He and the president's father golf and fish and McKenna serves on one of the international advisory boards of the Carlyle Group, a hugely influential, sometimes controversial, global investment firm with headquarters just down Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House.

URL: http://resist.ca/story/2004/12/24/71314/569