If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.

Trump has been very, very open and clear on what he's going to do. He's going to make the U.S. very competitive on taxes, corporate and personal. He's eliminating policy on carbon and the regulatory environment on shale and energy and pipeline development. These are all things that Canada has to do and we no longer have a competitive environment to do them in. It manifests itself in the slow grind of our economy.

Television is the most interesting hobby I've ever had.

I remember failing reading in school at a young age, and you just kinda get left behind and I felt helpless.

If you put Canada into $1.5 trillion in debt and interest rates go up just 200 basis points, you cannot provide the services to 36 million people that were guaranteed to them in the social contract they have with Canada. That's a very, very scary prospect. You can't burden this economy with that much debt. The risk you take on is insurmountable. You have to assume for the next 50 years that rates don't go up? That's insane. That's irresponsible. That's stupid.

I never, ever, ever let emotion get in the way of an investment.

The only reason to do business is to make money; that's the only reason for doing business.