It is wonderful to be despised, if, deep down, we know we are right.

I think we have to realize that Canada is not immortal; but, if it is going to go, let it go with a bang rather than a whimper.

This is the beauty of the democratic process: it permits that subjective view of justice - which everyone holds - permits that subjective way to express itself peacefully through discussion, through reason and through the voting process.

I think it's good that you test the reality that surrounds you in your neighbourhood with the reality as it is in other parts of the world; you come up with a better judgment. I'm not meaning that literally you can only do that and not go to school at all but in terms of enrichment of a personality I think it's a fabulous thing.

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.

I do object to the sensationalism or even the voyeurism of doing things in church or out of church.

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