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Let's make sure that when companies make investments to reduce emissions that they're rewarded for that and encouraged to do more.
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Emissions
Reduce
Rewarded
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I will not introduce legislation to reopen divisive issues or to reopen issues that have already been settled by previous governments.
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Legislation
Divisive
Governments
Introduce
Previous
Settled
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I was probably that obnoxious kid in first-year university who would try to win a political debate by just, you know, being belligerent.
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Debate
Obnoxious
University
Belligerent
Political Debate
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The foundation of our democracy is the ability to have a debate about any subject. That is why I am so committed to defending free speech.
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Ability
Committed
Debate
Democracy
Free Speech
Defending
Subject
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People should not have to worry about violence in their own neighbourhoods, but sadly, that is a reality that more and more Canadians face.
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Canadians
Sadly
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I've always been very passionate about issues. Being speaker, you kind of have to park the positions on issues and focus more on the rules.
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Park
Speaker
Positions
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Nobody can look back into our history and look at everyone who contributed into our development as a country and find someone who's flawless.
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Flawless
History Look Country
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Justin Trudeau tries to say that Canada is back. I say the Liberals are back - back to ignoring the rules and abusing the privileges of power.
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Abuse
Canada
Justin
Ignoring
Liberals
Privileges
Tries
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My job is to make sure our caucus and our movement is united. That means not bringing up divisive issues that would divide even our own party.
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Caucus
Divide
Divisive
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When it comes to Senate reform, in general, I've always been a believer in an elected Senate and would hope to achieve aspects of Senate reform.
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Believer
Senate
Aspects
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I've made it very clear that the government should get out of the business of trying to affect the markets, of trying to pick winners and losers.
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Affect
Losers
Winners
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I believe very firmly that we can get to balanced budgets without raising taxes and without cutting transfers to the provinces or to individuals.
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Balanced
Cutting
Provinces
Raising Taxes
Taxes
Firmly
Raising
Transfer
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If a factory closes down here and pops up in China where they don't have access to clean technology, clean energy, then the world is not better off.
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Better Off
Clean Energy
Pops
Technology World Better
Technology Better World
Closes
Factory
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I'm proud to say that we are the party of Canada's first prime minister, the father of our federation, and the visionary who made this land possible.
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Canada
Federation
Prime Minister
Minister
Visionary
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I've always believed we can attract a lot more Canadians to the conservative party by explaining and communicating our policies in a more positive way.
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Conservative Party
Explaining
Attract
Positive Always Way
Canadians
Policies
Positive Way
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I would like there to be an entity, a person with some authority, to interact with government, with officials, to advocate on behalf of firearms owners.
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Authority
Behalf
Entity
Firearms
Officials
Owners
Advocate
Interact
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The fact that the Liberals killed Energy East - a pipeline that would have brought Western Canadian energy to the Maritimes - that is a lost opportunity.
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Pipeline
Liberals
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President Donald Trump has made it very clear he wants to move Canadian jobs to the United States. There's no reason why Justin Trudeau should be helping him.
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Justin
No Reason
Donald
Donald Trump
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I think, at the end of the day, if voters don't see the substance and the merit of the policies you're advocating, it won't matter what you do on social media.
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Advocating
Merit
Substance
Voters
Policies
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Individuals who have demonstrated serious violent behaviour or have been involved in gang activity have forfeited the right to ever be trusted to own a firearm.
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Behaviour
Gang
Trusted
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Justin Trudeau had a message of asking Canadians to have trust in our immigration system. The problem is Canadians don't have trust in the Liberals to manage it.
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Immigration
Justin
Manage
Canadians
Liberals
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We have to recognize is that the best way to improve the quality of life for First Nations and Indigenous Canadians is through economic development and activity.
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Activity
Best Way
Economic Development
Indigenous
Quality Of Life
Canadians
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We would never accept a prime minister saying, 'Well, maybe I'll intervene and use a trade issue as a link to an independent investigation into criminal activity.'
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Investigation
Prime Minister
Criminal
Intervene
Link
Minister
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I actually think Justin Trudeau's approach to label people who have legitimate concerns with his issues as being un-Canadian and intolerant - that is very dangerous.
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Justin
Concerns
People Dangerous Who
Intolerant
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It was obvious after the '97 election that as long as there were two small-c conservative parties trying to destroy each other, the Liberals would win every election.
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Election
Obvious
Destroy
Liberals
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Whether it's Liberal or Conservative - any time someone has a perspective on what their experience has been as prime minister of the country, it's always interesting.
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Prime Minister
Liberal
Minister
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No one likes when debate gets stifled, when these events get cancelled, whether it's a former president or prime minister of Israel, whether it's a discussion on a panel.
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Debate
Discussion
Former
Prime Minister
Cancelled
Minister
Panel
Stifled
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The difference between Justin Trudeau and myself is I have had real world experience. I haven't just read books on the middle class and what life is like for them. I've lived it.
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Justin
Middle Class
Real World
Life Experience Myself
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Standing with a united India is Canada's gateway to unprecedented human and economic development and an essential alliance for Canada to strengthen in the face of shared threats.
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Canada
Economic Development
Unprecedented
Alliance
Gateway
Shared
Strengthen
Threats
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To think that a Catholic bishop must answer to a civil authority over matters of faith is abominable. It is abhorrent to me, to other Catholics, and to every member of every faith community.
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Abhorrent
Authority
Catholic
Bishop
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Caucus unity always needs to be foremost in the mind of the leader. During a leadership campaign, it's kind of natural that groupings develop, and now I have to make sure that all melts away.
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Leadership
Caucus
Unity
Campaign
Develop
Foremost
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I've always been worried about Justin Trudeau's attitude towards trade. We saw during the softwood lumber negotiations that he failed to get an extension while President Obama was still in office.
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Justin
Lumber
President Obama
Worried
Failed
Extension
Negotiations
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I believe in it so passionately because anywhere you look in the world, where governments become too big or become authoritarian, speech and expression is one of the first fundamental freedoms to go.
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Believe Where World
Authoritarian
Believe I Believe World
Freedoms
Look World Believe
Governments
Passionately
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Every country in history that has gone down dark paths, where governments take on too much control and really intervene and take away those freedoms, often start with an attack on the freedom to disagree.
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Disagree
Governments
Intervene
Paths
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We will not allow Justin Trudeau to keep spending billions wrecking our economy and then forcing local businesses - the very people who create jobs and opportunities in their communities - to pay the bill.
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Billions
Justin
Keep People Will
Forcing
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I want to be very honest with members about what I can offer, and I don't want to run in a leadership campaign promising things that I know are unachievable or would be very impractical to try to introduce.
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Impractical
Introduce
Promising
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I believe that the federal government should respect the freedoms that Canadians enjoy to have different beliefs and that by imposing personal values of Justin Trudeau on a wide variety of groups is not an appropriate way to go.
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Appropriate
Different Beliefs
Federal Government
Groups
Imposing
Justin
Variety
Wide
Beliefs
Canadians
Wide Variety
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The Conservative party under my leadership will continue to be an inclusive, welcoming party that welcomes not only immigrants but also refugees and ensures that Canada plays its role in welcoming people from difficult situations.
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Canada
Conservative Party
Immigrants
Inclusive
Refugees
Welcomes
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Are we better off if we displace jobs and investments to other countries and global emissions go up? I say no. Let's bring that production here and have less emissions globally because we can make things more efficiently and cleaner.
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Better Off
Emissions
Other Countries
Cleaner
Displace
Efficiently
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The Liberal Party has finally shown its true colours. I'm talking about the real Liberal Party: the tax-hiking, rule-breaking, perk-loving, deficit-spending, debt-mounting, virtue-signalling Liberals Canadians have come to know and despise.
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Despise
Liberal Party
Party
Talking
Canadians
Colours
Finally
Liberal
Shown
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I've got 12 reserves in my riding and have always been very available and worked very diligently on a few files. I've been out any time there is major events. So I've always had an open door policy with the chiefs and individuals on- and off-reserve.
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Chiefs
Files
Reserves
Riding
Diligently
Open Door
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I think the Conservative Party has a great story to tell when it comes to relationships with First Nations. I want to be part of the solution-identifying process, talking about, 'What are the practical things that we can achieve that the Conservatives can offer?'
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Conservative Party
Practical Things
Great Story
Practical
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I don't think that if Justin Trudeau came back from the NAFTA negotiations with a new clause - 'Oh, by the way, there's going to be a new legislature that Americans will send members to that will pass laws that will bind Canada' - I don't believe Canada would ever go for that.
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Canada
Justin
Legislature
Members
Nafta
Bind
Clause
Negotiations
Pass
Send
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I view Indigenous Canadians as an integral part of our society, proud of their contribution to Canadian history, great deal of respect for all they did pre-Confederation, the way that they have been partners in building this society we have, and I'm very proud to represent a dozen First Nations communities in my own riding.
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Contribution
Dozen
Indigenous
Partners
Riding
Canadians
Great Deal
Integral
Integral Part
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On NAFTA, the Canadian Parliament... is united. We have our partisan differences. When we hold the government to account, as is our role in our parliamentary system, we will absolutely point out what we think they should be doing differently. But when it comes to our relationship with the United States, we do speak with one voice.
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Differences
Nafta
Parliament
Account
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We know that the government in China has been involved in cyber attacks before. I look at our partners around the world, our traditional allies, our NATO partners who are making the same assessment. We share so much with them and rely on their technology, their expertise and interoperability in many aspects of our own armed forces.
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Allies
Armed Forces
Cyber
Expertise
Nato
Partners
Rely
Technology Government World
Armed
Aspects
Attacks
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I do believe that the U.K. over the years has given up a tremendous amount of sovereignty. The bureaucratic nature of the E.U., the different levels of government, the fact that court decisions in the U.K. can be appealed to a higher level of court in Europe, those are all things I don't think Canadians would ever accept for ourselves.
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All Things
Different Levels
Higher Level
Levels
Sovereignty
Appealed
Bureaucratic
Canadians
Tremendous
Tremendous Amount
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When it comes to protecting workers, labour conditions, labour legislation, the rights for collective bargaining, when you look at our environmental standards, when you look at our public disclosure laws and accountability and securities regulations to ensure that companies abide by the law, we don't have a level playing field with China.
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Environmental
Accountability
Bargaining
China
Collective Bargaining
Conditions
Disclosure
Labour
Legislation
Rights
Standards
Workers
Abide
Collective
Companies
Ensure
Field
Playing Field
Protecting
Regulations
Securities
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