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In his 14 months in power Martin . . . and kept Canada out of Iraq and ballistic missile defence.
Insofar as Canada decided to stay 'out of Iraq,' surely Chretien deserves whatever credit is due, not Martin, who named noted Iraq-war hawk David Pratt as his defence minister when he got the chance.
As for BMD, Martin was reluctantly forced into publicly rejecting further participation by a nation-wide grassroots activist campaign, whose best parliamentary friends were New Democrats, Bloquistes and a few Liberals like Carolyn Parrish (expelled by Martin).