It is inherently dangerous to allow a country, such as Iraq, to retain weapons of mass destruction, particularly in light of its past aggressive behaviour. If the world community fails to disarm Iraq we fear that other rogue states will be encouraged to believe that they too can have these most deadly of weapons to systematically defy international resolutions and that the world will do nothing to stop them.

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

If you want to diminish the number of abortions, you've got to change hearts and not laws.

I've always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.

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.

Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.

Our government has been in a surplus position up until this year. We should be able to recover to a surplus position shortly, as quickly as the economy recovers. So, we're able to do the kind of stimulus that you see in the United States without deteriorating our debt position in the long-term.