Any young person who comes to see me, I say, 'Look, forget about print. You gotta think in terms of getting going with websites and online and that sort of thing.'

I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in the Islamic world. Furthermore, I added an apology to dogs everywhere (being a dog lover myself).

I think it's important to understand that a cartoonist is not drawing for favourable reviews from politicians. What we're trying to do is capture the popular feeling of the time about a politician or a particular political issue. For that reason I think it sums up public attitudes that is very helpful to historians down the road.

A good cartoon, what it does, is sum up a situation, very neatly, as opposed to reading a lot of articles and so on.

Any young person who comes to see me, I say, 'Look, forget about print. You gotta think in terms of getting going with websites and online and that sort of thing.'

Many cartoons I've drawn have been controversial, perhaps a little before their time, certainly when I was getting started.

Despite that sort of reputation that Canada has of being a boring place, we really have produced really interesting politicians.