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" I don't feel that I or Canada has to prove anything through big, loud, overt acts. "
Justin Trudeau
Feel
Through
Prove
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" The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" My father's values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me. "
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" What I was raised with in terms of a call to service was just a sense that I was lucky. "
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" If you're a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it's about equality, it's about respect, it's about making the best of the world that we have. "
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" I think people understand that if you're going to have a successful economy, you need people's potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary. "
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" My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them. "
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" One of the fundamental responsibilities of any Canadian prime minister is to get our resources to market. "
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Get
Canadian
" Income splitting is not a wise investment for Canadians. "
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" Of all the memories I have of my father and of our relationship, none is warmer and more poignant than what happened a year before he died, when he came to visit me while I was teaching at West Point Grey Academy in Vancouver. "
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Relationship
Me
Memories
" Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype. "
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Polite
" My mom has always been so generous and so sensitive and so vulnerable and yet exudes so much strength. "
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Mom
Always
" We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement. "
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Education
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" 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. "
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Think
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Amazing
" 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. "
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Result
Made
" Throughout our history, Canada's immigration policy has brought people here who had a pathway to citizenship. They were - and are - nation builders. It has been supported by political parties of all stripes and promoted by successive governments over generations. "
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Citizenship
Political
People
" Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn't mean is that somebody can behave any which way and bully other people out of the nomination and then be the last person standing. "
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" When my dad left public life, I was 13 years old. I went through my teen years and into adulthood in relative anonymity. After my dad's funeral, I was suddenly recognizable to people I passed on the street. "
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People
Street
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" Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of. "
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You
Time
" You get more diversity and creativity in your problem solving, and you end up having a much better and more representative approach to solving the challenges faced by the population you serve. "
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Creativity
End
" 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. "
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Doing
" One of the things with Canada is we're of a modest enough size that we never feel that the ideal outcome of any given deal is, we win and you lose. "
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You
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" I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching. "
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Good
Teacher
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" The fact is, I'm opposed to coalitions. "
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" When my father died, I had millions of people supporting me in a very, very difficult time. I have received so much from this country. I realize that we're defined in life not by what we get from this world but by what we have to offer it, and I know that I have a lot to offer this country, and I'm serious about devoting my life to it. "
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" We have created a society where individual rights and freedoms, compassion and diversity are core to our citizenship. But underlying that idea of Canada is the promise that we all have a chance to build a better life for ourselves and our children. "
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" We require Canadians who are collecting EI benefits to prove they are looking for work. It's only fair that we require employers looking to benefit from the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to prove they really need it. "
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