My friend calls this angriville, here is a funny video to get everyone to chill.

[newguy]

When the US economy crisis hit Harper never had a clue what to do. They had to scrap their plan totally to keep things on track in Canada. We have to thank Paul Martin who had Canada in position to get through a bad stretch.

[HFL]

Paul Martin????? Please. Anything he did was on the backs of the Provinces and local Municpalities.
Parsley.......Hear Hear!!

[bucket]

Newguy.

If the conservatives were allowed to gut every single program like Paul Martin did with the majority under Chretien, the conservatives would not have had a deficit in the last two years.

Canada might have hurt for the short term but in the long term canada would have been closer to debt free.

[parsley]

"thank Paul Martin who had Canada in position to get through a bad stretch"

Canada was indeed in a position: bent over. So, here's Credit to Paul Martin: "Thank you Paul Martin for Adscam". Parsley

[newguy]

Chrietian said we would not go to Iraq and Martin told US banks we were staying our own. Looking back they saved Canada Billions.

[Kathy]

I will take a look at your links. Thanks.

Now that you are entering an area that I have spent years looking at, I hope I can provide you with some links that helped educate me.

First, you must understand one very big issue:

The "radioactivity" coming out of these reactors and spent fuel pools contains "HUNDREDS" of different radioactive isotopes - not just iodine, cesium, plutonium, uranium. Dr. Gordon Edwards has an excellent presentation at: http://www.ccnr.org/stockholm-2007/

"A picture/slide presentation which is extremely educational." MUST SEE!

Japan's Fukushima meltdown is already worse than Chernobyl. The one thing that can be guaranteed is that the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Assoication) has put a tight noose on the information coming out. Every day, the releases accumulate. From a BBC news article March 25 example of their lies:
"Levels of radioactive iodine in the sea near the tsunami-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant are 1,250 times higher than the safety limit, officials say.

The readings were taken about 300m (984ft) offshore. It is feared the radiation could be seeping into groundwater from one of the reactors.

But the radiation will no longer be a risk after eight days, officials say."

As I said, iodine 131 is only one isotope of hundreds being released. Two - it takes 10 half-lives before levels reduce to negligible levels. Iodine 131 will bio-accumulate in the thyroid gland causing thyroid cancer (for one) see link below about documentary Chernobyl Heart. Pictures/video are worth more than words.

"Chernobyl Heart" - the consequences to health, and future generations, as a result of Chernobyl:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=414073095760658789#

Link to radiation monitors USA:
https://cdxnode64.epa.gov/radnet-public/showMap.do
You may have to unblock popups on yellow tab top of page. It is not good! I have been watching here for days, and levels are up and down, up and down. Radioactive isotopes from Japan are making it to North America.

It may take a few years, but this disaster will have an effect on shortening life-spans, increasing cancers etc, around the world. Japan is contaminated (wide-spread), and has only been spared the worse by the "direction the wind is blowing". If it blows-back onto the island, things will change fast.

[riders2010]

Not that I'm ra ra Paul Martin, but his biggest problem was Chretien backstabbbing. Other than that he was no idiot and aside from other things should be credited with putting the country in good shape, he made Chretien look better than he was while finance minister. Not sure of his role if any in adscam! If he were Liberal leader I'd consider a vote for him today.
Although, he may have intended to do things for the west but it didn't happen either.

[stubblejumper]

We in the west should be like Tom and friends in Alberta and form another Conservative party because the one we have now isn't working.

[dalek]

"Down with the Count"

[bucket]

The problem with Paul Martin is he has a sweetheart deal shipping grain through the great lakes with deals through the cwb that are none of our business.

Meanwhile he is heavily invested in one earth farms, which is also something he started while prime minister.

[rockpile]

Hmm! First off, it was Paul Martin who called on the
Gomery Commission, I'll be it, under pressure. But
note: in Ottawa, nothing happens without pressure.
As for Harper, I just don't trust the guy. Is he
suddenly the warm, caring, fuzzy, centrist piano
playing guy who goes to bed at night saying -
'gosh, I just want to do the very, very best for
Canadians'. Or, underneath is he still the just a little
bit right of a Libertarian, a wing nut graduate of the
'Calgary School' who helped pen the doctrine to
build a firewall around Alberta, who in a speech at
a University in the US said that 'Canada doesn't
even deserve to be a Country', who in his Masters
Thesis wrote that 'any Government that runs a
deficit deserves to be strung up', and who in Tom
Flanagan's book is described as someone who feels
it's alright to bend the rules or do whatever is
necessary to achieve your aims and goals. I just
don't trust the guy. If a Prentice or McKay were
leader - you wouldn't even be seeing this post. My
hope - no majority for anyone until we get some
pure and honest leadership.
As for Sk's question - give your head a shake. A
coalition with the Bloc would be dysfunctional
before it was even announced. It would be like you
and Burburt suddenly working together on a
common cause.

[stubblejumper]

Stephen Harper clearly tried to seize power through a coalition agreement after coming second to Paul Martin's Liberals in 2004, Bloc Québécois Leader Gilles Duceppe charged Saturday at the start of Canada's 41st federal election campaign.

Duceppe held up the letter to the Governor General he said Harper signed as Official Opposition leader to Martin's government.

Duceppe and Layton say they got together with Harper and drafted the letter to tell then-Gov. Gen. Adrienne Clarkson that Harper was prepared to form a government if Martin lost the confidence of the House of Commons.

"He finished second in that election," Duceppe said in French. "If he says that's undemocratic, well, that's exactly what he was asking for. So let's not play games with history. He has to take responsibility