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Marie-P. Poulin (Charette)

The Hon. Marie-P. (Charette) Poulin, O.St.J., B.A., LL.B., M.A. Called to the Senate of Canada in September 1995, Senator Marie-P. Poulin was the first woman to chair the Senate Liberal Caucus, and the first senator to chair the Northern Ontario Liberal Caucus.

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Statement made on 27 May 2009 by Senator Sharon Carstairs (retired)

Hon. Sharon Carstairs:

Honourable senators, I remember sitting in the Leader of the Government's seat. I remember the complaints from the other side because we could not get the numbers right on surpluses — 2 or 3 per cent of the overall budget. Why were we not better at getting our numbers right? We now have a situation in which they are 47 per cent wrong. Will the Leader of the Government in the Senate please explain how the Minister of Finance can be considered competent when he gets the deficit wrong by 47 per cent?

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