In a sense Paul Martin is a bit like Australia's Mark Latham on the missile defence stance. Like Latham, he deliberately kept it ambigious so as not to enrage the Quebec Liberal voters (I found that many francophone federalists like Trudeau are the most anti-US people in Canada, apart from Toronto metrosexuals). It is also telling that the Canadian Liberal Party is equivalent to the Left faction of the Australian Labor Party.
I thought the ALP were socialists (equivalent to Canada's NDP)?
"It is also telling that the Canadian Liberal Party is equivalent to the Left faction of the Australian Labor Party."
Ouch! That Left faction is an embarrassment, an entire party of whacko's is more than this Aussie can imagine - what happened to the Canadians? They used to be such nice people, (well, all the Canadians that came to live in Australia, anyway!)