Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.

Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been...

I think the way to change it is to handle issues individually when it's essential to do so.

There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism.

But the Progressive Conservative is very definitely liberal Republican. These are people who are moderately conservative on economic matters, and in the past have been moderately liberal, even sometimes quite liberal on social policy matters.

But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

Canada remains alienated from its allies, shut out of the reconstruction process to some degree, unable to influence events. There is no upside to the position Canada took.