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" A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anyone. "
Citizenship
You
Place
" A Canadian on the ground in different parts of the world, whether they're a diplomat, an aid worker, or a soldier, has an extraordinary, powerful impact. "
World
Impact
Ground
" Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months. "
Father
Result
Made
" Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I'm jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada. "
Think
People
Amazing
" Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional. "
You
Like
People
" As a prime minister, my job is not to try and influence or opine on what a leader of a different country should be doing. "
Job
Country
Doing
" As politicians, we're very, very much trained to say something and stick with it. "
Something
Say
Politicians
" As someone who grew up with a father who was the prime minister, many people liked me, and many didn't. I don't pay much attention to labels and certainly don't let people define me through the labels they apply. I stay focused on what I need to do. "
People
Me
Father
" As soon as you're locking doors, you're narrowing your circle. And your circle gets smaller and smaller until it's finally just yourself and your buddy and you've got no one to party with. "
Doors
Got
Party
" At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing. "
Know
Doing
People
" A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues. "
Issues
Anger
Get
" Big global players like China need to do a better job of respecting human rights. "
Better
Human Rights
Rights
" Canada has always been there to help people who need it. "
Been
Canada
Help
" Canada's extraordinary success is that we have bound together a vast country with a set of shared ideas and beliefs. "
Ideas
Bound
Canada
" Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for yourselves and your kids, and that future for your kids would be better than the one you had. "
Future
Work Hard
Work
" Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype. "
Just
Stereotype
Polite
" Canadians are tired of being cynical. "
Being
Canadians
Cynical
" Canadians need a plan for jobs and growth. "
Canadians
Need
Plan
" Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa. "
Want
Voice
People
" Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well. "
People
Make A Difference
Politics
" CBC has a very important mandate to bind Canada together in both official languages, tell local stories, and make sure we have a sense of our strength, our culture, our stories. "
Culture
Important
Strength
" Certainly in a world where terrorism is a daily reality in the news, it's easy for people to be afraid. But the fact is that we laid out very clearly - and Canadians get - that it's actually not a choice between either immigration or security: that of course they go together. "
People
Daily
Reality
" Confident countries are willing to invest in the future. "
Confident
Future
Invest
" Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand. "
Listening
You
Understand
" Every day, at home, I have the astonishing and humbling opportunity - together with my wife Sophie - to nurture empathy, compassion, self-love, and a keen sense of justice in our three kids. "
Day
Justice
Home
" For generations, Canada has been built by hard-working people who want to make sure their kids have a better life than they did. "
Canada
People
Life
" For me, being able to engage with the details when necessary, when there's a challenge, when there's a particularly important pivot, yes, you have to do that. But in general, a leader needs to trust their commanders, needs to trust the team they've assembled, to actually execute in the right way. "
Team
Leader
Challenge
" For me, I've always been Justin Trudeau, son of. All my life I've had to know I was carrying a name, and people were paying more attention to what I had to say, and I had to make a choice early on. "
Name
Me
My Life
" From the very beginning, I've talked about how we're going to strengthen the middle class in this country. "
Beginning
Middle
Going
" Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls. "
Women
Issue
Gender
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