This is causing considerable dislocation, ... There are a lot of people on fixed incomes. There are a lot of businesses on thin margins that are going to be affected by this.

I've told my caucus repeatedly, if you make conservatism relevant to ordinary working people, you make the most powerful political philosophy in Western democratic society. Where Conservative parties are successful, and successful on a sustained basis, that's what they do.

You've got to remember that west of Winnipeg the ridings the Liberals hold are dominated by people who are either recent Asian immigrants or recent migrants from eastern Canada: people who live in ghettoes and who are not integrated into western Canadian society.

The United States defends its sovereignty, the Canadian government will defend our sovereignty. ... It is the Canadian people we get our mandate from, not from the ambassador to the United States.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don't and I've always said that on these kinds of moral issues, people have the right to their own opinions.