It [the Iraq invasion] was absolutely an error. It's obviously clear the evaluation of weapons of mass destruction proved not to be correct. That's absolutely true and that's why we're not sending anybody to Iraq.

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

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.

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

We got into a recession because the global economy went into the recession and we're a big exporting nation.

On the justification for the war, it wasn't related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction. In our judgment, it was much more fundamental. It was the removing of a regime that was hostile, that clearly had the intention of constructing weapons systems. ... I think, frankly, that everybody knew the post-war situation was probably going to be more difficult than the war itself. 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.

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.