Replies

"Paul Martin is a loathsome crook
worse than Chretien"

Unlike Martin, Chretien did not get rich on his way to the top that's for sure.

I like Martin better than Chretien. Chretien was a dyed-in-the-wool anti-American of the lefty type. His comments about 9/11, his failure to appear with Blair at Bush's post-9/11 speech, his globalist sentiments. Martin's disputes with us don't seem to be ideological.

Over the years I've read many Canadian commentaries very laudatory of trans-national institutions and global governance. From below the feelings were ideological, but the inspiration came from above where profit was the motive.

Unlike Martin, Chretien did not get rich on his way to the top that's for sure.

I don't know about that Shermy.

The Cretch just bought a nice house in Ottawa for $1.9 Million.

Not chump change exactly. Pretty good for someone who never earned more than $150,000/year.

Neither Chretien nor Martin have any ideology.

Chretien is a small-time cheap lawyer
who got his start doing crooked real-estate deals.

Martin quietly moved to riches
by latching on to the rich and powerful.

I always have detested Martin much more than Chretien.

It is obvious to everyone that Chretien is a two-bit swindler
but Martin still manages to convey the impression
that he has some decency and honour.

The press always has covered for Martin.
He ran his steamship lines
receiving about a hundred million dollars
from the Federal government
while he was Finance Minister!

(Would such a thing be conceivable in the USA??
Just look at the flak Cheney has received
over Haliburton).

His steamship lines were registered offshore
so that Paul Martin paid almost no Canadian Income Tax
while he was Finance Minister!!!

The wheat farmers in Saskatchewan all detest Martin
because when he was Finance Minister
he had the 'Crowe Rate" removed
(a special rate charged to farmers
to have their wheat shipped to the Great Lakes)
thus farmers were forced to ship their wheat
to Hudson Bay
where
surprise, surprise
the only steamship line in operation
was that of Paul Martin.