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I Think What Everybody Believes And Agrees With, And To Be Frank Myself, Is That The Current Approach [to The Drug Trade] Is Not Working, But It Is Not Clear What We Should Do.

I Think It's A Typical Hidden Agenda Of The Liberal Party... They Had The Courts Do It For Them, They Put The Judges In They Wanted, Then They Failed To Appeal -- Failed To Fight The Case In Court... I Think The Federal Government Deliberately Lost This Case In Court And Got The Change To The Law Done Through The Back Door.

There's Unfortunately A View Of Too Many People In Atlantic Canada That It's Only Through Government Favours That There's Going To Be Economic Progress, Or That's What You Look To That Kind Of Can't-do Attitude Is A Problem In This Country But It's Obviously More Serious In Regions That Have Had Have-not Status For A Long Time.

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.

I Do Not Intend To Dispute In Any Way The Need For Defence Cuts And The Need For Government Spending Cuts In General. I Do Not Share A Not In My Backyard Approach To Government Spending Reductions.