If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act.

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.

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

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.

It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's absolutely true and that's why we're not sending anybody to Iraq.

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