If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

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

The new frontier lies not beyond the planets but within each one of us.

I'm sure in a few years it will be unthinkable to say there were 20 years when we didn't recognize the People's Republic of China. And then we'll have to explain what the political constraints were and why it didn't happen earlier.

When the religious principles, like the philosophical, are translated into reality, sometimes the reality forces violence on you, and there is no escape from it, and then I don't think it's something you should try to hide your face from.

Canada is a country whose main exports are hockey players and cold fronts. Our main imports are baseball players and acid rain.

I believe that Canada cannot, indeed, that Canada must not survive by force. The country will only remain united - it should only remain united - if its citizens want to live together in one civil society.