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Article: Paul Martin: he's their man.(Editorial)
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- Canadian Dimension
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
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It is doubtful whether a decade ago fans of Paul Martin junior would have suspected he would be the one to dismantle the welfare-regulatory state. After all, this was the regime Paul's own father had taken so much credit for building up. Nevertheless, using the rhetoric of the deficit crisis as his cover, it was indeed the junior Martin who instituted the biggest cuts in program spending in peacetime history. And he was proud to do so. "Relative to the size of our economy," he boasted in his February 1995 budget speech, "program spending will be lower in 1996-7 than at any time since 1951."
Besides dismantling this country's social and regulatory ...