I’M ALL FOR JEAN CHRETIEN BEING SNUBBED, but this story seems to have a key point wrong:

Bush has yet to visit Canada in the almost three years since he was sworn in as president.

I guess that Quebec, where Bush attended the “Summit of the Americas,” isn’t part of Canada.

UPDATE: Reader John MacDonald notes that Bush also visited Alberta for the G-8, but suggests that what the writer meant to say was that Bush hasn’t undertaken a formal state visit to Canada, as such.

Quebec reader Kevin Germann says something similar:

Technically speaking, attending a summit that happens to be in Canada is not visiting Canada. A traditional visit would focus on bilateral issues and perhaps involve the President addressing the Canadian parliament. The diplomatic tradition has been that the President’s first foreign visit has been to Canada, acknowledging the importance and closeness of US-Canada friendship. Bush has indeed snubbed Chretien, and deservedly so, in my opinion.

Well, okay. So why didn’t the Toronto Star say that? Apparently, the Star feels it should have, because another reader forwarded me an email from its ombudsman, promising a correction.