[fanfan]

I agree.

I'm not trying to defend her behavior in any way, but if Paul Martin did write, or partly write the 'redbook', then her statement......

Like others, I expected we would deliver. But unlike others, I was actually foolish enough during the campaign to state, on national television, that if we didn't, I would resign my seat.

~snip~

Martin was given three years by cabinet to introduce a replacement for the GST. Instead, he used his considerable clout in finance to prove it was impossible. When he finally announced, in 1996, that he was oh-so-sorry but the hated tax could not be abolished, he left Chretien flat-footed and me seatless -- a double whammy that had Martinites reeling with delight.

....might just have a shadow of truth to it.

[Grig]

Her unwillingness to keep her own promise makes it hard for me to see her as an innocent victim here.