Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right treatment.

We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

It would be naive to imagine we have solved all our income security problems simply because the roles of the federal and provincial governments in the area of skills training have been clarified.

There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing, (but) it's something you do much later.