US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was in Ottawa on October 25th. Rice shrugged off the Canada-US lumber dispute as just one minor irritant between the two countries. After meeting with Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew, Rice was jokingly asked if she happened to bring a cheque for three-point-five billion dollars. (Ottawa claims Canada is owed three-and-a-half billion dollars by the US for duties improperly collected against Canadian softwood exports.)

Date: 2005-10-25
Placeline: OTTAWA, Ontario.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 5 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << I don't travel with that kind of money >>

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