Paul Martin

The Right Honourable Paul Edgar Philippe Martin, PC , MP , LL.B , BA (born August 28, 1938 in Windsor, Ontario) is the Prime Minister of Canada. He is the twenty-first prime minister, having succeeded Jean Chrétien on December 12, 2003. Martin is leader of the Liberal Party of Canada and was elected in his own right with a minority government on June 28, 2004?the first minority government in twenty-four years. The Liberals won 135 of 308 seats in the Canadian House of Commons.

Quotations

Regarding the proposal that homosexual couples be limited to civil unions, instead of being allowed to marry: "Put simply, we must always remember that separate but equal is not equal."

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Referring to the Liberal Red Book, the basis for their successful 1993 election campaign: "Screw the Red Book... Don't tell me what's in the Red Book. I wrote the goddamned thing. And I know that it's a lot of crap." (Wilson-Smith, Greenspon, 1996)

Related Topics:
Red Book - 1993 - Campaign

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