Canada is a democracy, not an entirely healthy democracy, but a democracy all the same.

The United States should follow Canada's example to solve the unemployment problem.

Chretien's U.S. policy can be summed up as: maximum co-operation carried out in the most offensive possible manner.

The Chretien government has painstakingly manoeuvred Canada into a result that backs the United States while ensuring that Canada can claim no thanks from the United States whatsoever.

As countries modernize, they tend to leave brokerage parties behind. Very belatedly, that moment of maturity may now be arriving in Canada.

Don't expect the Liberals to go quietly. You don't become the longest-ruling political party in the world by letting a little public disgust discourage you.

There is only one cure for one-party rule, which inevitably leads to economic stagnation and political corruption: replacement of the ruling party by another.

Program Chretien unveiled last week was more of stuff that has poisoned Canada over the previous nine years: more spending, more give-aways, more indifference to the country's economic problems.