We also support the exploration of alternative ways to deliver health care. Moving toward alternatives, including those provided by the private sector, is a natural development of our health care system.

Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy.

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

I will strive to make this not the highest-spending country in the world, but instead the lowest taxing o-ne.

Withdraw from the Canada Pension Plan... Collect our own revenue from personal income tax... Resume provincial responsibility for health-care policy. If Ottawa objects to provincial policy, fight in the courts... [E]ach province should raise its own revenue for health... It is imperative to take the initiative, to build firewalls around Alberta.

I think we're vastly over-invested in universities. Universities should be relatively small and provide excellent education and research in a number of specialized areas. I think the vast majority of young people should be going through non-university, post-secondary training.

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