‘Friend’ Bush is no moron, says Canadian prime minister

CANADIAN Prime Minister Jean Chrétien is under fire after his director of communications, Françoise Ducros, was reportedly overheard on Thursday calling President George W Bush a moron at a NATO meeting in Prague.

“He’s not a moron at all,” Mr Chrétien told the press, trying to defuse the controversy. “He is a friend.”

But opposition leaders in Canada are now calling for a head over the insult.