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We must aim to make Canada a lower tax jurisdiction than the United States.

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The Reform party is much closer to what you would call conservative Republican.

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In the last Parliament, [the Liberal Party] enacted comprehensive gun control...

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The NDP is kind of proof that the Devil lives and interferes in the affairs of men.

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Kyoto is essentially a socialist scheme to suck money out of wealth-producing nations.

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I don't know all the facts on Iraq, but I think we should work closely with the Americans.

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Those of different faiths and no faith should seek areas of common agreement based on their different perspectives.

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In terms of the unemployed, of which we have over a million-and-a-half, I don't feel particularly bad for many of these people.

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I think there is a dangerous rise in defeatist sentiment in this country. I have said that repeatedly, and I mean it and I believe it.

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Your country, and particularly your conservative movement, is a light and an inspiration to people in this country and across the world.

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But I'm very libertarian in the sense that I believe in small government and, as a general rule, I don't believe in imposing values upon people.

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Mr. Speaker, I am sure the picture of the hon. member of the NDP [Svend Robinson] is posted in much more wonderful places than just police stations.

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The Reform party is very much a modern manifestation of the Republican movement in Western Canada; the U.S. Republicans started in the western United States.

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Some basic facts about Canada that are relevant to my talk... Canada is a Northern European welfare state in the worst sense of the term, and very proud of it.

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They were in favour of gay rights officially, officially for abortion on demand... This explains one of the reasons why the Reform party has become such a power.

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Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.

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There is a continental culture. There is a Canadian culture that is in some ways unique to Canada, but I don't think Canadian culture coincides neatly with borders.

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Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy…These achievements are due in part to the Reform Party…

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Same sex marriage is not a human right. … Undermining the traditional definition of marriage is an assault on multiculturalism and the practices in those communities.

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We also have no history of colonialism. So we have all of the things that many people admire about the great powers but none of the things that threaten or bother them.

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I think people should elect a cat person. If you elect a dog person, you elect someone who wants to be loved. If you elect a cat person, you elect someone who wants to serve.

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Let me say a little bit about the Reform party because I want you to be very clear on what the Reform party is and is not... The Reform party is very much a leader-driven party.

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A transition is taking place in Egypt. In my judgement, there is no going back. I think the old expression, They're not going to put the toothpaste back in the tube on this one.

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In fact, before the Reform Party really became a force in the late '80s, early '90s, the leadership of the Conservative party was running the largest deficits in Canadian history.

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We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

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The predecessor of the Reform party, the Social Credit party, was very much like this. Believing in funny money and control of banking, and a whole bunch of fairly non-conservative economic things.

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