There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism.

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.

If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.

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

I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.

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.

There is a dependence in the region that breeds a culture of defeatism.