Carbon dioxide does not cause or contribute to smog, and the Kyoto treaty would do nothing to reduce or prevent smog.
Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.
Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status...
Don’t indulge your theories, think of your children and listen to the experts.
I believe that all taxes are bad.
I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.
I don’t know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.
Everybody makes money when times are good. It’s when times are not so good that the groundwork is laid for the next generation.
Corruption is not a Canadian value!
I think because we’re such a trading nation, I think Canadians understand that first and foremost we’re part of the global economy.
Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.
If Ottawa giveth, then Ottawa can taketh away.
Now ‘pay equity’ has everything to do with pay and nothing to do with equity. It’s based on the vague notion of ‘equal pay for work of equal value,’ which is not the same as equal pay for the same job.
We’ve got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.
I’ve always been clear, I support the traditional definition of marriage.
The single most important duty of the federal government is to protect and defend our national sovereignty. There are new and disturbing reports of American nuclear submarines passing though Canadian waters without obtaining the permission of, or even notifying, the Canadian government.
Paul Martin talks eloquently about defending national sovereignty but the reality hasn’t matched the rhetoric. When it comes to the United States, Mr. Martin says he calls them as he sees them, but when it comes to American passage through Canada, he doesn’t actually see anything.
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.
On the justification for the war, it wasn’t related to finding any particular weapon of mass destruction.
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.