Exporting Conflict
The Saudis exported their civil war to the rest of the world, the Irish sent it back to England, the Palestinians exported their conflict to Munich....now, *sigh* the liberals have exported their lame civil war to the rest of Canada. Here's the latest wrap up.

Via Damian Penny:

Copps: PM tried to kill health act
Martin aide denies allegations in rival's explosive memoirs

Paul Gessell

OTTAWA - Former deputy prime minister Sheila Copps claims that when Paul Martin was finance minister, he wanted to abolish the Canada Health Act, scrap old age pensions and sell off the CBC. It was only her intervention that saved the day for Canada's cherished health care scheme, she says in a soon-to-be-published book that suggests if Mr. Martin had become prime minister a few years earlier, he would have joined the Americans in invading Iraq.

The explosive and vitriolic political memoir -- Worth Fighting For -- goes on to declare that Mr. Martin defeated Ms. Copps for the Liberal leadership with "widespread, organized fraud" and then, after dropping her from Cabinet, engineered her defeat in a Hamilton, Ont., riding nomination contest through a campaign of "dirty tricks."

Last night the Prime Minister's Office was quick to vehemently deny Ms. Copps' charges.

"Any suggestion that there ever existed a proposal to scrap the Canada Health Act associated with the 1995 budget or Mr. Martin is simply incorrect," said Marc Roy, associate director of communications for the PMO. "He would not design or support such a proposal."