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I Think In Atlantic Canada, Because Of What Happened In The Decades Following Confederation, There Is A Culture Of Defeat That We Have To Overcome.

What The Government Has To Do, If It Wants To Govern For Any Length Of Time, Is It Must Appeal Primarily To The Third Parties In The House Of Commons To Get Them To Support It.

I Forget What The Relevant American Rate Is, But I Can Tell You That Our Goal Is To Have A Combined Federal-provincial Corporate Tax Rate Of No More Than 25 Percent. We're On Target To Do That By 2012. We Will Have Significantly - By A Significant Margin The Lowest Corporate Tax Rates In The G-7, And That's Our - Our Government's Objective.

On The Justification For The War, It Wasn't Related To Finding Any Particular Weapon Of Mass Destruction. In Our Judgment, It Was Much More Fundamental. It Was The Removing Of A Regime That Was Hostile, That Clearly Had The Intention Of Constructing Weapons Systems. ... I Think, Frankly, That Everybody Knew The Post-war Situation Was Probably Going To Be More Difficult Than The War Itself. Canada Remains Alienated From Its Allies, Shut Out Of The Reconstruction Process To Some Degree, Unable To Influence Events. There Is No Upside To The Position Canada Took.

Our Government Has Been In A Surplus Position Up Until This Year. We Should Be Able To Recover To A Surplus Position Shortly, As Quickly As The Economy Recovers. So, We're Able To Do The Kind Of Stimulus That You See In The United States Without Deteriorating Our Debt Position In The Long-term.