Sometimes there are no good choices for government.

I do believe there is absolutely space for legitimate debate in a liberal democracy about immigration selection, screening and integration.

My response to my friend Naheed Nenshi was simply to say that some of the hyperbolic language that's being used to critique this sensible reinforcement of the public nature of the citizenship oath is, I think, unhelpful, and is actually inflaming the situation.

The public citizenship oath done in a court in front of a judge and one's fellow citizens should be done publicly.

I find the niqab symbol profoundly offensive. I believe it reflects a misogynistic culture that - a treatment of women as property rather than people, which is anchored in Medieval tribal customs as opposed to any religious obligation, but I do not seek to regulate people wearing this objectionable symbol if they choose to do so.

I have said explicitly from day one when I announced this policy in, I believe, November of 2011, that I and our government oppose the idea of banning the wearing of the niqab in public.

Rural Alberta is a lot less homogeneous than it used to be, partly because of my immigration policies.