But I Accepted That Because God Gave

At One Point Trudeau Mentioned To Me That The National Gallery Wanted To Buy A Masterpiece By The Great Italian Painter Lotto, And It Needed A Million Dollars From The Treasury Board. "is That Lotto-quebec Or Lotto-canada?" I Joked, But I Got The Message, And The National Gallery Got The Painting.

I Was Stricken By News And Television Pictures Coming From The United States This Morning. It Is Impossible To Fully Comprehend The Evil That Would Have Conjured Up Such A Cowardly And Depraved Assault Upon Thousands Of Innocent People. There Can Be No Cause Or Grievance That Could Ever Justify Such Unspeakable Violence. Indeed, Such An Attack Is An Assault Not Only On The Targets But An Offense Against The Freedom And Rights Of All Civilized Nations.

It's One Thing For A Courier Service Transport Letters And Documents From One City To Another At A Cost That Only Big Business Can Afford; But It's Another Thing To Take A Letter From An Indian Boy Studying At The University Of Ottawa To His Mother In Old Crow.

I Didn't Feel The Need To Have A Lot Of Yes-men Standing Around Me. As Mitchell Sharp Once Put It, The Bigger The Staff, The Smaller The Minister.

Economics Has Been Called The Dismal Science. Once You Get To Understand It, You May Not Find It So Dismal, But You Don't Find It Much Of A Science Either.