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.

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

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

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.

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

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

There is no greater fraud than a promise not kept.