Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien said Tuesday he would retire on Dec. 12, after a decade in power, and make way for his successor and long-time rival Paul Martin.
| G'bye. Have a nice retirement. Give our regards to Yellowknife. |
Chretien's last years in office were increasingly marked by a power struggle with Martin, who last week was elected as the new leader of the governing Liberal Party. Chretien sacked Martin in June 2002 as finance minister for plotting against him.
| "Yar! Deep-laid plots™, is it? Well, I'll show him!" |
"We have agreed that Dec. 12 will be the date when the new government will be sworn in," Chretien told reporters in Ottawa after the two men met for 45 minutes to discuss the transition of power. "I offer him my best wishes and good luck and I will observe from the sidelines," said the 69-year-old prime minister, who took power in November 1993.
| Or as Davy Crockett would have said, "I am going to Yellowknife, and you can go to Hell!" |
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