text: And this is a surprise because????
  
  Pierre Trudeau ridiculed Conservative plans to implement wage and price controls during the 1974 election -- but then imposed them himself afterwards.
  
  The GST?
  
  Sept. 27, 1990: "I want this tax dead.'' - Liberal Leader Jean Chretien
  
  1993 - Liberal Party Red Book: "A Liberal government will replace the GST with a system that generates equivalent revenues, is fairer to consumers and to small business, minimizes disruption to small business, and promotes federal-provincial fiscal co-operation and harmonization."
  
  May 2, 1994: "We hate it and we will kill it." - Prime Minister Jean Chretien
  
  And then Chretien did nothing.  It was actually Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper who reduced the regressive tax by two per cent years later.
  
  NAFTA?  "Breaking a campaign promise, Prime Minister Jean Chretien declared on Thursday that Canada will implement the North American Free Trade Agreement." 
  
  Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose, eh?