It's not that we're afraid to get our hands dirty. We just don't like that culture of confrontation, 'gotcha' politics. |
My partner (her word) John hates politics. But he's been most supportive of me, and knows how important politics is to me. |
My view is that if there are displaced people who need accommodation, that we would be there, |
People here in Canada, especially in Atlantic Canada because of that Acadian connection, felt that 'well, maybe we could take some of these people in, especially the children. We could offer them a place of temporary refuge,' |
Quite clearly this is a human disaster of enormous proportions. We have tens and tens of thousands of displaced people across the United States, |
Quite truthfully, I have no idea (how much the pension is worth) because I have never contemplated retiring. |
regarding all the flights in question. |
That is something we've indicated we'll take a look at and will talk to our American colleagues about. |
The government of Canada continues to be ready to deploy both human resources and other kinds of services as requested, |
The message is NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement) is there. NAFTA has helped both our countries enormously. We live up to the terms of NAFTA. We ask you, our best friend and most important trading partner to do the same thing. |
We believe that the understanding that he has of the context of this tragedy and the factual underpinnings that he has worked to comprehend will help him enormously, |
We have made good on our shared resolve to deliver what I firmly believe will be a fair and lasting resolution of the Indian school legacy, |
We want to reassure the president and the people of the United States that we are their best friends and their neighbour, and we will be there to help them in a situation that truly is without parallel in our country or theirs, |
were handled in accordance with normal operating procedures. |
Yesterday, the Department of Human Health Services in the U.S. contacted our public health agency and asked for an inventory of emergency supplies that, if they need them, we could send at a moment's notice. |