After Chretien, it's nice to see Canada finally have a PM with a grip on reality.

"I believe that terrorism will be, for our generation, what the Cold War was to generations that preceded us," he said. "I don't think we're out of it yet."

Martin disagreed with former prime minister Jean Chretien, who publicly blamed poverty for terrorism and the Sept. 11 attacks. "The cause of terrorism is not poverty, it is hatred."

Martin also says that he believes Saddam's WMD is now in the hands of terrorists. That, courtesy of Syria, is quite likely.

It will be something more than ironic if the angst about the alleged intelligence failure pointing to "nonexistent" Iraqi WMD is replaced by similar angst about an intelligence failure that failed to find where they went.

Sorry, Rand. Paul Martin was the finance minster in Chretien's cabinet for nine years. He presided over the (further) gutting of Canada's military. I am 35 years old; most of the helicopters that the canadian army uses are older than I am, and you can trace that right straight to Chretien and Martin (who as their very first act in office cancelled a contract for brand new EH101 helicopters). As a direct result of Martin's handling of the finance portfolio, our military has fewer members than the NYPD.

Sadly, it will take a 9/11 of our own (in Toronto or Montreal) before the Liberal government realizes that there is a war on.

Isn't this the guy who thinks Canada invaded Norway in WWII?