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The Chrétien Legacy

by Jack Dixon

202 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #03-2715; ISBN 1-4120-2166-9; US$19.78, C$22.75, EUR16.25, £11.38

The 10-year regime of the Chrétien Liberals is exposed for its moral rottenness. Quebec companies get hundreds of millions and make huge donations to the Liberal Party. It funds projects mostly in Liberal ridings. And Chrétien, the enemy of democracy, the military, and Western Canada, travels the world in luxury $100 million jet airliners while our airmen and soldiers are being killed in antiquated equipment.

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About the Book

This ... booklet exposes the 10-year administration of Jean Chretien for its failure to observe the basic rules of ethics. The ends seem to justify the means. After detailing all the pledges made in 1993 and subsequently broken, the author examines the various areas of government policy, or lack thereof. He is particularly revealing, and scathing, when discussing bilingualism, multiculturalism, national defence, Indian affairs, and so-called Canadian rights. He introduces a note of levity in his amusing 'interview' with Sheila Copps on Canadian heritage.

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About the Author

The author served for twelve years in the Royal Air Force, as an armourer and pilot, then went to Oxford and took an honours degree in Modern Languages. He immigrated to Canada and served in the Royal Canadian Air Force as a security/intelligence officer for five years, including 3 years in NATO, before resigning his commission to take up university teaching. He took his PhD at Stanford, and taught French Literature for thirty one years and retired to the West Coast in 1990, where he now busies himself writing.

In this booklet the author has not pulled any punches in his condemnation of Jean Chretien's record. But he reserves a special contempt for Chretien's Cabinet and Liberal caucus, who could have stopped Chretien in his tracks at any time, but took the dishonourable path of clinging to their comfortable offices and fat pensions and vaporous celebrity.

Jack Dixon is the acclaimed author of The Battle of Britain: Victory and Defeat.

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Excerpts

It is an utter disgrace that free trade does not exist between the Provinces within Canada. Quebec interests call the shots. And yet you have taken measures to further the interests of Quebec nationalism... by according the right - note: the right - of Quebec to secede from Canada..[p. 78-9]

You [Jean Chrétien] are against freedom. You are all in favour of rights. Freedom is indivisible; rights are easily manufactured, and then enacted into law by Parliament. And so subversively that the enacted rights can then be decreed by various Courts as taking precedence over our ancient freedoms. You ... are a co-author of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms ... a cunningly contrived weapon designed to enhance 'rights' at the expense of our freedoms... the instrument of the promotion of policies that are ... destructive of Canadian unity... [p. 120.]

You have proven yourself to be... destructive of democratic and parliamentary traditions, practices and principles. You are an enemy of the honourable principle of government by Cabinet. [p. 154]

The Prime Minister's Office...has never attracted the attention of the press that it calls for. It is the symbol and instrument of all the wrongs we have catalogued. It is the subversive agency of the diminution or debasement of both Parliament and Cabinet. It is the repository of a power conferred on it solely by the Prime Minister, and in constitutional terms it is illegitimate, if nothing worse. [p.168]

In the mere ten years of your regime you have had no fewer than four ministers of Foreign Affairs, five ministeers of International Trade, five ministers of Defence, and four Solicitors-General. (p.18)

(In) your Byzantine bureaucracy it takes 16 years to get new equipment. One item, a mere back-pack for our infantry, took 12 years from the date of request to the date of supply...And what about staff? You have padded the pay-rolls with employees, mostly from Quebec, so that a bureaucracy numbering thirteen thousand pen-pushers and committee-men are needed to administer Armed Forces numbering only sixty-five thousand. (pp. 68-69.)

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