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.

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.

I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome.

I think people should elect a cat person. If you elect a dog person, you elect someone who wants to be loved. If you elect a cat person, you elect someone who wants to serve.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

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