For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

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

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

There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.

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

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

Like all of us, there were many facets to Margaret Thatcher's personality. In private she was kind, thoughtful, charming. Very attentive to her interlocutors. She took time to be concerned - she knew all about my children and wife Mila and so on.