the correct person to explain this would be chretien, though.

"well, you know, i knew pierre and i knew prime minister blair, and they were of course very different. i don't know what..."

they mean the third way.

"the third way? well, when we talked about the third way, we meant asia. india. i don't know what..."

clinton also called himself "third way".

"well, i don't know what you mean. if we had a third way, and they had a third way, but maybe i had the same third way, you know with clinton and blair, even if it was different. so, maybe i had two third ways."

wouldn't that be a fourth way?

"no, because they're two different third ways."

but, if you are to enumerate the number of ways, sir...

"no, because it's still third, it's just two different times."

*pause*

"i don't know what this other third way is. our third way was about nixon. you know, he didn't like pierre much, and we wanted independence from the queen, so we had to look at the rest of the world. and, we didn't want to, you know, join with the russians, either, although we didn't want to hate them, too. it's just silly to go around hating countries. we want peace. so, we thought it made sense to have relationships with other countries, too. and, india was a big country in the commonwealth, with similar ideas about independence and about mixed markets, so we thought maybe we could build closer ties. i think prime minister blair was just a kid. i don't know this other third way, but if it's clinton and blair, it's probably me too."