Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes.

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.

The jackasses at Elections Canada are out of control.

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

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

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

It's the idea that we just have to go along, we can't change it, things won't change. I think that's the sad part, the sad reality traditional parties have bred in parts of Atlantic Canada.