A pedestrian budget from a revolutionary.

Looks back at the finance ministers that Canada has had since the mid 1970s and discusses the changes that Finance Minister Paul Martin has been able to make since taking office. How Canada's budgetary deficits ballooned during the time Pierre Trudeau was in office; How Martin has been able to cut federal expenditures and trigger a shift toward the private sectors as the animator of the economy; Problems with Martin's budget.