First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.

We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.

Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol.

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

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.

I think it's a typical hidden agenda of the Liberal party... They had the courts do it for them, they put the judges in they wanted, then they failed to appeal -- failed to fight the case in court... I think the federal government deliberately lost this case in court and got the change to the law done through the back door.

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