We're always willing to look at ways NAFTA can work better. But it's a fine line between looking at ways to make it work better and actually starting to open the agreement. I think, if you actually opened the agreement, I think you would get into a negotiation that - that would never terminate.

We're not going to scrap the budget and make up some totally new platform the day after the election. So it's certainly willingness to compromise but we're not going back on the fundamental things we're running on in this campaign.

The fact of the matter is, we have the strongest banking system in the world.

I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.

I think when ordinary working people come home, turn on the TV and see a gala of a bunch of people at, you know, a rich gala all subsidized by taxpayers claiming their subsidies aren't high enough, when they know those subsidies have actually gone up - I'm not sure that's something that resonates with ordinary people.

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.