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...