During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec.

I think on all the debate on immigration, and all of that, the class of person that should be given the benefit of the doubt is the genuine refugee that is just in real desperate strait. Some of them are in the United States illegally because of [human] trafficking. They were caught up in trafficking, and you can argue to what extent it's their fault, to what extent they didn't know what they were getting into.

Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.

My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.