You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

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.

Whether Canada ends up as o­ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion...

America, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.