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.

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

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

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.

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.

Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.