Liberals Don't Want Any Part Of Canada

Canadians Want A Country. They Don't Want A Community Of Communities. I'm Committed To The National Unity Of The Country.

I'm Very Struck By What You Can Do In A Classroom. I've Got 200 Students. You Don't Do Partisan Politics In A Classroom, That's Not Appropriate. But You Want To Give Them A Strong Sense That These Are The Issues That Matter.

One Of The Biggest Divides In Canada - I Said It In 2006, And I Said It Right Through My Political Career - Is Urban-rural. Lots Of Parts Of This Country Feel Entirely Left Behind. And They're Mobilized By, You Know, The Gun Control Issue.

We Can't Afford To Waste People. We Can't Afford To Have People Think The Game Is Over Before It's Begun. We've Got To Be Saying To The Canadian People: You Can't Tax Cut Your Way To A Productive 21st-century Economy. You Can Talk That Talk, But It's Not Going To Give You A Productive 21st-century Economy, Because It Will Scythe Apart The Public Goods That Make Prosperity Possible. That's What We've Got To Say, And So We Shall.

Family Traditions Are More Than Arguments With The Dead, More Than Collections Of Family Letters You Try To Decipher. A Tradition Is Also A Channel Of Memory Through Which Fierce And Unrequited Longings Surge, Longings That Define And Shape A Whole Life.