The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.

You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.

This country is made up of small towns and big dreams.

If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.

I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.

When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands.