I am here to party.

The judge is the neutral objective party whose job is to weigh and measure all the surrounding circumstances and decide what's fair. By conditioning a plea, the district attorney is playing the role of both prosecutor and judge.

This announcement has been well planned and Gordon is content in the fact that he has put the club on sound footing, and that Nick is the right person to take the club through its next phase.

I'm going to have a big party tonight! ... very difficult.

When I was elected chairman, the party was $750 in the red. When I left, we had $3,400 or $3,500 in the bank. It takes about $10,000 to $15,000 to run a good election, and now we've got the base to do that. We've got a start, and that's a very good thing.

If we are a national institution, we must as a party reunite in rural and agricultural Canada. We can't be a national institution if we're only going for votes in Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax.