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" People still think there's sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it, too, from time to time. "

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" The federal government's role is to establish a process whereby industry can pitch a project, and Canadians can be reassured that this project is worth the risk. That's at the heart of governments granting permits and communities granting permission. People understand we do need economic growth. We do need natural resource projects. "

" Parents are the centre of a person's solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most, so his absence was bound to leave a deep and lasting void. "

" Richard Nixon made a toast to me as a future Prime Minister of Canada when I was 4 months old, sitting as a centerpiece in the middle of a table as my father had plonked me down there. It was more about politeness than any great vision. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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" I trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament. "

" 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. "

" We're actually able to approve pipelines at a time when everyone wants protection of the environment. We're being able to show that we get people's fears, and there are constructive ways of allaying them - and not just ways to lash out and give a big kick to the system. "

" I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard. "

" When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on. "

" Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most. "

" The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose. "

" Quite frankly, I talk about the fact that I'm a feminist as often as I can, and every time I do, it gets huge reaction, and media reacts, and the Twitterverse explodes and things like that, because here I am saying I'm a feminist. I will keep saying that until there is no more reaction to that when I say it, because that's where we want to get to. "

" Who cares about winning? We should focus on serving. "

" I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes. "

" We know that society is better - more prosperous, more stable, more peaceful, more cohesive - when women's rights are respected and when women are valued, empowered, and lead the way in our communities. "

" My father, his values were anchored in the time, but they were also timeless, whether it's bilingualism, multiculturalism or the charter of rights and freedoms. "

" What I was raised with in terms of a call to service was just a sense that I was lucky. "

" I know and I've always felt for Canada that we recognize that diversity is a great source of strength. "

" At one point, people are going to have to realize that maybe I know what I'm doing. "

" Much more a skiing family than a hockey family, my dad wasn't a big fan of the arenas early in the morning on the weekends. "

" 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. "

" I believe it is wrong for Canada to follow the path of countries who exploit large numbers of guest workers, who have no realistic prospect of citizenship. It is bad for our economy in that it depresses wages for all Canadians, but it's even worse for our country. "

" When I get out across the country and listen to people, the resentment that I see and the frustration that I see is that we have a generation of people who are fairly convinced that their kids are not going to have a better quality of life or a better future than they will. "

" I sort of locked into the idea that if I could be the perfect son to both of my parents, well maybe that would be enough to keep them together. And ultimately, obviously, it wasn't. Regardless of what I tried to do. That was a lesson about limitations. "

" Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here. "

" I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all. "

" 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. "

" I'm proud to be a feminist because making sure that everyone understands we all have a role in fighting for equality is the only way to move forward. "