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Article: Where will Paul Martin's bandwagon take us?(Canada)
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- Catholic New Times
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- October 5, 2003
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Millions of Canadians seemwilling--even eager--to get a chance to vote for Paul Martin whenever he calls an election. That he will win the Liberal leadership and be in a position to call an election by next February is a foregone conclusion. But why Canadians are so eager to vote for Paul Martin remains a mystery, if you compare what he did as finance minister to what Canadians say their values are.
Here is a man who instituted the largest cuts to Canada's most cherished social programs of any politician in history--including the reviled Brian Mulroney. Then, in the year 2000 when he had huge surpluses--$193 billion over five years--which he could have used to ...