Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.

For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation.

Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.

I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around.

I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister.

The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.

If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.

Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.

I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.

We now know that unity, the cornerstone of Canada's greatness and prosperity, is above all a matter of emotion and reason for every citizen.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

Is a mountain only a huge stone? Is a planet an enormous mountain?

We want to fight.”“And I want J.K. Rowling to keep writing in the Potterverse, but I know that’s never going to happen, ” I said blithely.

It's September 21st, a day I love for the balance it carries with it.

Comedy is often about pain.

Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them

Domesticity has to mean nesting. Otherwise, six months go by, and you don't know where your underwear is.

By the time I have clarified a thought, I no longer want to think it.

Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows