When you bring an idea that has no merit to me, and you ask me to comment on it, I'm going to tell you it has no merit.

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.

You can't regulate a soul into a business.

I have no baggage in politics. I've never been a politician. I don't owe anybody anything.

When I turned 50, something clicked in my head and I said, 'I'm not going to live to 100. I'm half-cooked already.' I set the family down and I said, 'Listen everybody, we're now entering the decade of Daddy. We're going to start doing things that I want to do.

I'm not a tough guy. I'm just delivering the truth and only the truth and if you can't deal with it, too bad.

The road to riches is never straight and narrow. It can be riddled with financial land mines.