What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.

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

There's unfortunately a view of too many people in Atlantic Canada that it's only through government favours that there's going to be economic progress, or that's what you look to That kind of can't-do attitude is a problem in this country but it's obviously more serious in regions that have had have-not status for a long time.

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

Now 'pay equity' has everything to do with pay and nothing to do with equity. It’s based on the vague notion of 'equal pay for work of equal value,' which is not the same as equal pay for the same job.