Does anyone really think it took Butts and McKenna to say something for intelligent Canadians to identify Rempel's and Kent's treachery in ranting about Khadr in the U.S. on the eve of the NAFTA negotiations? 
Of course there's a connection – stirring up anti-Canada sentiment. That two Canadian MPs should go out of their way to do this is beyond reprehensible. 
Their goal is to sabotage the negotiations so as to make the governing party look bad. That's all the CPC cares about – not Canada, not Canadians, not jobs, not the Charter, not international law. And certainly not the widow Speers, whom they chose to help only when they thought they could make political hay out of it.
And the arrogance, to claim that only they are there advancing the trade file, when the governing party has been doing precisely that for months, and has garnered almost universal praise from experts who actually understand the issues.
Rempel should go home before she does any more damage.