I've been called treacherous, stupid, venal, lazy ..and that's only by the Tories.

It's not as if our party has a leadership campaign underway.

We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option.

Happy the society whose deepest divisions are ones of style.

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.

If the United States leads a multinational force into Iraq without United Nations backing, Canada should fight beside its neighbour. We've gone from being a middle power to a muddle power on this one.