I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

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.

The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.

We plan to lift the veil of secrecy surrounding the preparation of the budget. We also plan to open up the process of government appointments.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government.