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Text of Paul Martin's TV address
Canada.com ^ | Apr. 21/05 | Canadian Press

Posted on 04/21/2005 5:14:40 PM PDT by fanfan

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1 posted on 04/21/2005 5:14:40 PM PDT by fanfan
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To: GMMAC; conniew; JudyinCanada; -YYZ-; backhoe; Grig; headsonpikes; West Coast Conservative; ...

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2 posted on 04/21/2005 5:16:19 PM PDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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Better than I expected from Martin. Harper did a good job too. Even Duceppe was fine.

Layton. What the hell? He spent most of the time talking about global warming and such. I didn't think it was possible, but he made the NDP more of a national disgrace than it already was.

That is probably the biggest thing going for the Liberals. They aren't being bled from the far left. If they manage to keep their grip on power, it will only be because Layton and the NDP are so horrible. The Conservatives are doing their part at least.


4 posted on 04/21/2005 5:22:16 PM PDT by Atheist_Canadian_Conservative
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To: fanfan

Listened to the speech on CBC Radio, and the opposition parties all seem to echo the same theme that it's a Liberal problem, and not a Canadian problem. Jack Layton sounded like he was already hitting his stump speech. Kudos to Steven Harper! Harper hit on all the right points in his speech! This scandal may backbench the Liberals for a few election cycles. If I was a Canadian, and the Gomery report came out next Winter, I'd be torqued if the election were held around Christmas, or even January.


5 posted on 04/21/2005 5:26:02 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it" - Pope John Paul II)
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thanx for post fan fan...by the way,how do you spell pathetic in the canuck language?...oh yeah..pa????ul???martin...how'd i do?


6 posted on 04/21/2005 5:28:04 PM PDT by bc boy (bc boy is back from cancun)
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What a weenie.

He talks about improving health care? I thought Canadians had a great health care program.....LOL


7 posted on 04/21/2005 5:30:25 PM PDT by Redgirl (I actually voted for John Kerry before I voted against him.)
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Better than I expected from Martin.

You're kidding, right?

You were able to see through every lie Martin told, right? ??

8 posted on 04/21/2005 5:33:01 PM PDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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To: fanfan

"I am not a crook."


9 posted on 04/21/2005 5:34:58 PM PDT by In The Crease (Canada---no leftists need apply.)
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It didn't take much to surpase my low standards.

You weren't expecting something better I *hope*. For what he was addressing, short of resigning, he did a good job (again, this is not saying very much).

Anyway, I don't think Martin hurt himself here, but Harper probably did a lot to sharpen his image with some doubters in Canada (he sounded more like a PM in waiting than a bitter leader of the opposition).


10 posted on 04/21/2005 5:42:21 PM PDT by Atheist_Canadian_Conservative
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ensure for Canada a role of pride and influence in the world are being obscured by partisan jousting.

That would be way cool; if that huge land mass on America's northern wanted to be a player with us. Who knows what might happen?

But, I fear the dole mentality is way to deep.

11 posted on 04/21/2005 5:42:55 PM PDT by don-o (Don't be a Freeploader. Do the right thing and become a Monthly Donor!)
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Liberals have alot more to hide way more than the Gomery inquiry has revealed so far. Today on a local radio show a caller said that he hoped the word Liberal wouldn't be turned into a dirty word. LOL!
Add me to your ping list.


12 posted on 04/21/2005 5:52:48 PM PDT by freeforall
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Please add me to your list.


13 posted on 04/21/2005 5:54:07 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Rick Nash will score 50 goals this season ( if there is a season)
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He talks about improving health care? I thought Canadians had a great health care program.....LOL

We have " A " Health Care Program. LOL.

Paul Martin, the leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, goes to a "private physician " in Montreal

The rest of us can wait years for our free health care.

Paul Martin was the finance minister who chose to cut health care transfers to the provinces.

Here's the deal......We send all our taxes to the feds, and they redistribute.

Feds were responsible for 50% of the health care. Under the liberals over the last 12 years, the feds have been keeping the taxes, but only paying 12 to 15% of every dollar put towards health care.. ...

Sorry. Rant Off. :-)

14 posted on 04/21/2005 5:56:07 PM PDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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Disagree - IMHO, Harper was sub-par:

... way too much French and his failure to stress Martin's obvious and hypocritical contempt for the very Parliament he claims to respect in habitually ducking questioning within that venue and in presenting his case via his pre-taped TV blurb.
15 posted on 04/21/2005 6:02:32 PM PDT by GMMAC (lots of terror cells in Canada - I'll be waving my US flag when the Marines arrive!)
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To: freeforall; buccaneer81
You both shall be pinged. :-)

Enjoy the show

16 posted on 04/21/2005 6:03:52 PM PDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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Harper's job now, is to lead the country.

Let Paul Martin and the Liberal party dig their own graves. They're doing a good job so far. :-)

17 posted on 04/21/2005 6:16:07 PM PDT by fanfan (" The liberal party is not corrupt " Prime Minister Paul Martin)
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"Public money was misdirected and misused."

Nah... I'm sure that the Clintons would say it was "invested."


18 posted on 04/21/2005 6:19:06 PM PDT by Brilliant
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As long as I can remember (nearly my entire life actually) every Canadian politician uses "way too much French". Seems to me your nitpicking everything that offends you beyond the pale. Martin's appearance is nothing more than Nixonian and Clintonian in it's context. The fact he begged for TV time shows he's guilty of the charges, and in the process of personal damage control, while at the same time, blaming everyone else for the pickle he's in.


19 posted on 04/21/2005 6:19:16 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (If there was a tagline, it would go here)
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Simply an observation.
By my estimate, 40-50% of Harper's remarks - including the majority of his best ones - were en Francaise.

Given that this was a response to Martin's English blurb and that Harper had the additional opportunity to respond to Martin's French language one in that language, to me, it was pretty much a waste of this specific air time and largely pointless linguistic grandstanding.

Suffice to say, if I'd been among his handlers, I'd have advised him to use his English air time differently. Your implied comment that this somehow makes me guilty of some sort of imagined anti-French bigotry is as unfounded as it is offensive.
20 posted on 04/21/2005 7:17:04 PM PDT by GMMAC (lots of terror cells in Canada - I'll be waving my US flag when the Marines arrive!)
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