I don't see any easy way of disqualifying people on the basis that they decide not to work.

The most beautiful missionaries I saw were those who talked less about religion but who were very generous in their approach.

Canada is seen to some as a confederation of shopping centres.

When they are 50 yards from Parliament Hill, they are no longer honourable members, they are just nobodies.

I was shaken to the extent that people who criticized me used to say that I was Protestant more than a Catholic because I like to impose constraints on myself, but I don't like them to be imposed from the outside.

Perhaps the rediscovery of our humanity, and the potential of the human spirit which we have read about in legends of older civilizations, or in accounts of solitary mystics, or in tales of science fiction writers - perhaps this will constitute the true revolution of the future. The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

In specific terms I don't think I could make any suggestions, but in general terms I believe that it is because Canadians have been under the good influences of their churches that they are a tolerant people, an understanding and patient people, so that there has been little backlash against the excesses which have happened over the decades in French and in English Canada which might turn either group off.