Grit MPs reluctantly return to the Hill

Bitter, fatigued and confused is how some Grit backbenchers describe the way they feel about the way Paul Martin has been governing in the dying days of this session.

Prime Minister Paul Martin's Liberal government may have survived its last confidence vote before the summer break by sneaking the so-called $4.6-billion NDP-Liberal Budget Bill, C-48, through the Commons late Thursday night, but the rough and tumble tactics it used to get there have left many MP...

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