Canada is a vast and empty country.

I think first and foremost everybody should understand that Canadians are strongly committed to the system of universal health insurance, to the principle that your ability to pay does not determine your access to critical medical service.

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

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

My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views.

We want to see oil and gas regulations on a continental basis given the integrated nature of this industry, with the current conditions in the oil and gas sector, this government will not consider unilateral regulation.

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.