Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been...

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

I just think it would be unrealistic to suggest we're going to eliminate every last domestic insurgent in Afghanistan. Certainly, the history of the country would indicate that's not a very realistic objective, and I think we have to have realistic objectives.

It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems.

What we clearly need is experimentation with market reforms and private delivery options [in health care].

I know economists will say well, we could run a small deficit but the problem is that once you cross that line as we see in the United States, nothing stops deficits from getting larger and larger and spiralling out of control.

Canada is a vast and empty country.