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Biography

Born with Windsor, in Ontario, the Paul Martin young person is marked by the electoral campaigns of his father, member of Parliament and member of the liberal government under four Prime Ministers different. After studies of philosophy, history and right to the university of Toronto, it is received with the bar of Ontario in 1966, but undertakes finally a career in the businesses within an investment company based with Montreal (Power Corporation of Canada). In 1968, it offers a political bracket of a few months to direct the countryside of his father, engaged for the second time in the race with the leadership of the Canadian Liberal party (PLC). Of return to the business, it takes the direction of the Canada Steamship Lines, a maritime transport company, which it repurchases in 1981 - and of which it transmits management to its sons in 2003.

In 1988, the liberals are in the opposition and in search of new personalities. On the councils of her father, Paul Martin presents himself in the district of LaSalle-Émard (Montreal) and between with the House of Commons. When John Turner gives up the direction of the party the following year, Paul Martin presents himself to her succession and finishes second behind Jean Chrétien, which entrusts the drafting to him of its electoral program for the nearest legislative ones.

Minister for Finance

Initially elected in the House of Commons of Canada in 1988 liberal like Appointed of the district Lasalle-Émard, it took part without success like candidate in the cheffery of the Liberal party of Canada in 1990. In 1993, Paul Martin was named Minister for Finance in the government of Jean Chrétien, her predecessor. It preserved this station until in 2002.

Because of its efforts to the ministry for Finances, Canada succeeded, as of the end of the year 1990, with not only eliminating its Budget deficit but also has to increase much its national debt of approximately 36 billion Canadian dollars. As Minister for Finance, it founded a very discussed bill making so that any immigrant wanting to reside at Canada must spend a sum of 475$ at the time of his arrival. This tax of entry on the Canadian territory was to be eliminated in 1993, the year during which Canada was not any more in one overdrawn position, but in spite of that, Paul Martin maintained this tax. It is as important to know as during the period when Paul Martin was Minister for Finance, Canada eliminated a deficit from 42 billion dollars and recorded five consecutive budget surpluses.

However, several provinces, whose Quebec and Alberta, consider that its programs of budgetary austerity contributed to widen the Fiscal imbalance between the provincial states and the federal state, since several Canadian social programs, whose public health system, underwent important budgetary cuts in 1996 so that the federal government can reduce the deficit. In this manner the Canadian federal government could eliminate its deficit simply while returning the invoice with the provinces.

In 2000, Paul Martin and its supporteurs tried " renverser" being indicated the liberal chief of the head of the party, him naturally like the Christian successor of . Unfortunately, its efforts remained vain. This event made only envenimer more the relations tended between the Prime Minister and his Minister for Finance. With the elections in 2000, the Chrétien Prime Minister obtains a third consecutive parliamentary majority what consolidated for certain a its role of leader within the party. This last also announces that it will be about its last mandate.

In June 2002, tired set of slides on behalf of the Martin clan aiming at precipitating his departure, the Prime Minister alters his Cabinet, driving out blow Paul Martin of his station, the substitute by John Manley. But the pressure does not decrease therefore on the Prime Minister so that it specifies his intentions on its departure, thing which it will make two months later announcing that it intended to leave in February 2004.

Prime Minister

In November 2003, following a race with the cheffery whose exit was not any doubt, Paul Martin becomes chief of the Liberal party with a support from approximately 90% against nearly 10% for her only rival still in the race, the old vice-first minister Sheila Copps. Jean Chrétien having agreed to precede her departure of the 24 Sussex, Paul Martin was sworn in Prime Minister of Canada on December 12th, 2003. December 12th, 2003, Paul Martin succeeds Jean Chrétien. Arrived at the head of the government without clearly definite program, it recovers a country with cleansed finances and the powerful economy. Its interior policy falls under the continuity of that of its predecessor. Concerning the thorny question of the health-care system, the new Prime Minister harnesses himself however with better distributing the surpluses of the federal budget to come to assistance of the provinces, which pain to balance their accounts, because of the big raise of the health expenditure and disengagement of the Federal state in this field.

Extremely on a favorable economic assessment and a raised approval rating, Paul Martin decides to cause anticipated legislative elections. At a few weeks of the poll, however, a business of misuses of public money to the profit of agencies of communication close to the Liberal party (scandal known as “of the mixed liability companies”) seriously starts the credibility of the Prime Minister, although he denies any implication immediately. The PLC manages however to gain the elections of June 28th, 2004 with a small majority (36,7 p. 100 of the votes, either 135 of the 308 seats to the House of Commons), right in front of the Conservative party Stephen Harper (29,6 p. 100 of the voices, or 99 seats). The shortly after the poll, Paul Martin finds himself in a posture of most delicate: even with the voices of the New democratic party (NPD), allied historical of the liberals, his camp cannot hope for any more but one relative majority to the Parliament.

In the field of the foreign politics, Paul Martin initially multiplies the attempts at bringing together with the United States, after one period of tensions born several factors (refusal of Ottawa to take part in the war in Iraq, American embargo on Canadian ox, or taxation of the sawlog). At the beginning of its mandate, he decides thus in favor of the reduction of the Iraqi debt, desired by the Bush administration. However, after having announced, at the time of its first visit in Washington on April 30th, 2004, the participation of Canada in the project of anti-missile shield - within the framework of the common defense policy of the NORAD (North-American Airspace Defense Command) -, it concurs in its public opinion and retracts in February 2005.

It started elections general on May 23rd, 2004 with a poll on June 28th. After a heat countryside vis-a-vis a Conservative party in full increase, he is elected with the head of a minority government, holding 135 seats out of the 308 of the House of Commons. The scandal of the mixed liability companies, in which several members and close to the Liberal party of Canada were implied, was a big factor in the loss of the liberal majority. Indeed, lasting this scandal, Paul Martin was the Minister for Finance in the cabinet of Jean Chrétien and a report/ratio of the auditor general of Canada, Sheila Fraser, deposited in February 2004, reveals that the money of the taxpayers was diverted towards the trunks of the Québécois wing of the Liberal party (strongly involved in debt at that time). Of course, Paul Martin denied any implication in this scandal, and in his first report/ratio published on November 1st, 2005, the judge Gomery affirms that it is not personally responsible. After eighteen months of turbulences, the House of Commons voted a motion of not-confidence at the place of its government the November 28th 2005, which started general elections. The poll took place the January 23rd 2006, during which the Liberal party was demolishes and replaced by a preserving minority government directed by Stephen Harper. Paul Martin immediately announced her intention to resign of the post of head of the Liberal party; it remains however appointed of its district of Lasalle-Émard. After the advertisement of his resignation, Martin named Bill Graham, Minister for the Defense of Martin and ex-minister of the Foreign affairs in the Chrétien cabinet, as a chief of the Liberal party of Canada by interim.

His/her father, Paul Martin father, itself was appointed and federal minister. He cherished the ambition to become Prime Minister, without reaching that point. Paul Martin is member of Bilderberg.

Business CSL

Paul Martin was also shown to have escaped with the tax by recording her company, the Canada Steamship Lines, in the Tax shelters. To make this device legal, it would have amended the law concerning the tax escape whereas it occupied the post of minister of Finances. These controversial laws and these provisions concerning the Tax shelters were considered to be unconstitutional by the courts of justice.

Moreover that was worth well to him a multitude of mockeries on behalf of the other Canadian political parties at the time of the electoral campaign of 2006 in electoral publicities which give in doubt its Canadian patriotism, because Paul Martin had made this federal election " a confrontation référendaire" between the Québécois separatists, who were represented by the Québécois Block, and the Canadian federalists.

Homosexual marriage and abortion

Of catholic confession, Paul Martin expressed with many recoveries her party taken in favor of the merry marriage and the abortion. A priest montréalais threatened it to deprive it of the sacraments. Moreover, he had been similarly criticized by the bishop Fred Henry on the abortion. On the same subject, Benoît XVI had spoken about car-excommunication. It should be noted that in the Catholic religion, private being of the sacraments is equivalent to being condemned to the hell.

External bonds

federal political Experiment — Library of the Parliament

Simple: Paul Martin Jr.

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