I feel perhaps I didn't deal with the question of violence in depth.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

Canadians should realise when they are well off under the Monarchy. For the vast majority of Canadians, being a Monarchy is probably the only form of government acceptable to them. I have always been for parliamentary democracy and I think the institution of Monarchy with the Queen heading it all has served Canada well.

You just cannot cut a country in two any more than you can cut a human being in two. If you do, you do not have two human beings; you have a corpse.

I know the usual answer of Christ using violence to get the sellers out of the temple, but to me this was impatience rather than violence.

There's no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. What's done in private between adults doesn't concern the Criminal Code.

I recognize that in some cases it's more important to have freedom and justice than to have peace.