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.

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.

I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.

Canadians know that our difficulties will not be resolved overnight. They are tired of politicians who pretend they will be.

We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen.

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.

Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.