You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.

We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.

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.

Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.

Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it.