We must not lose sight of the fundamental issue of policy which is that people who come to the country on visa status must never be abused.

There are a lot of young Canadians who want to be politically active at their college or their university who can't go to the party convention, who can't take part in politics, because they're holding down a job to pay their tuition. These are kids who want to do public service, who want to get involved politically, but their financial situation is precarious.

Inequality is not just an issue between individuals, between classes, between regions. It's between urban and rural.

Political utopias are a form of nostalgia for an imagined past projected onto the future as a wish.

Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.

I was with the U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on the day that Srebrenica fell, which happened to be a huge historical turning point in the Bosnian war.

Patriotism is the secret resource of a successful society.