I like gold because it is a stabilizer; it is an insurance policy.

All businesses require capital, management and labor, and business executives, wanting to grow and maintain profitable enterprises, have a strong incentive to keep costs, including labor, as low as possible.

I have great people working for me now. I surround myself with smart people.

Canada has always been ready for the truth. I think they actually appreciate a politician or anybody as a leader who tells the truth.

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.

Imagine bringing Canada into a trillion-and-a-half of deficit. That's insane.

People say that I can't speak French. C'est pas vraiment placé. I'm getting better every day. I just have to keep practising. That's the truth.