The newspaper quoted an unidentified Canadian official who was in the room as saying Bush waved off attempts to explain how contentious the issue is for Martin's minority government.
"(Bush) leaned across the table and said: 'I'm not taking this position, but some future president is going to say, Why are we paying to defend Canada?'," the official was quoted as saying.
I first heard about this on CBC Sunday Night. Couldn't find any mention of it in any of the papers yesterday until I was scanning around this morning.
source: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20050124.wlibs0124/BNStory/Front/