America, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.

I think it's a typical hidden agenda of the Liberal party... They had the courts do it for them, they put the judges in they wanted, then they failed to appeal -- failed to fight the case in court... I think the federal government deliberately lost this case in court and got the change to the law done through the back door.

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.

Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature.

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.