Liberals Welcome Colombian Visits

Published June 17, 2009

MONTREAL—In a debate over perception and reality, a war of words, a dispute of numbers, and, in the end, a battle for votes, the Colombian government has officially deployed its biggest guns in its bid to secure a free trade deal with Canada.

Yet even with President Alvaro Uribe speaking at an international economic conference in Montreal, responding to reporters' questions in Ottawa with Prime Minister Stephen Harper and appearing...