>>http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/americas/12/14/canada.martin.reut/index.html
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>>Stephen Harper, leader of the main opposition Conservative party...equated Martin's dealings with the United States on softwood to a kid who calls names but is afraid to fight. "He hasn't thrown a punch. He couldn't throw a punch to save his life," he said.
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>You got that right, Dan. This one's particularly fractious because it was forced by the aforementioned Harper 3 months before one was to be called anyway.

?? The government should have fallen last May 19.

>I'm seriously thinkking of voting Green Party, since at least that ballot would be counted, as opposed to spoiling it.

Harper's point is that there are people who act, and others who sound off about what they *might* do. You and Martin may have more in common than you think.

In recent years I can't recall a better example than Paul Martin of someone who has "risen to their level of incompetence". Mr. Dithers was a good Finance Minister but he has been an abysmal PM and leader in general.