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The Globe and Mail Preston Manning Published March 16, 2021 Bookmark Please log in to listen to this story. Also available in French and Mandarin. Log In Create Free Account Getting audio file . This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy. Full Disclaimer Preston Manning is the former leader of the Reform Party of Canada and a former leader of the official opposition in Parliament. “What’s a million?” was a phrase allegedly uttered in 1945 by the federal minister of wartime production, C. D. Howe, to casually dismiss fears concerning wartime overspending by the Liberal government of the day. It was seized upon by John Diefenbaker to paint the government as fiscally irresponsible, resurfaced again in the great Pipeline Debate of 1956, and was used very effectively by Diefenbaker in the 1957 federal election campaign to bring down Louis St. Laurent’s government. ....