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In many respects, my best friends were dogs.
Preston Manning / Canadian Politician
Dog
My Best Friend
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Negative is always more newsworthy than positive.
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Negative
Newsworthy
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An optimist in Canada is someone who think things could be worse
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Canada
Optimist
Thinking
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Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.
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Canada
Country
Pursuit
Relentless
Rodents
Founded
Only Country
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A revolutionary should neither look or act like one to get ahead in Canada.
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Canada
Looks
Revolutionary
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The role of the federal government should be neutral toward culture just as it is toward religion.
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Government
Culture
Federal Government
Roles
Neutral
Toward
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What used to be considered conservative values... are increasingly becoming more mainstream values.
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Conservative
Mainstream
Increasingly
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My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.
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Canada
Gdp
Political
Populist
Rooted
Western
Convictions
Traditions
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New Canada must be workable without Quebec, but it must be open and attractive enough to include a New Quebec.
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Attractive
Canada
Enough
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Populism is about is alienation in large numbers of people, but aggravated and provoked by a deteriorating economic conditions.
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Aggravated
Economic
People
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During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.
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Careers
Christian
Father
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Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
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Legal
Society
Categories
Characteristics
Ethnicity
People
Race
Putting
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What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.
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Differences
Politician
Slime
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I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.
Preston Manning / Canadian Politician
Dissatisfied
Federation
Status Quo
Quo
Status
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My first official consulting job, therefore, was for a scrap metal dealer (he resented the term "junk dealer") in East Edmonton named Benny Sugarman.
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Jobs
East
Junk
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There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.
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Community
Given
Members Of Parliament
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As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.
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Father
Listening
School
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My religious training told me that in times of personal uncertainty one should seek God's direction through personal prayer and study of the Christian scriptures.
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Christian
Prayer
Religious
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Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.
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Home
Commitment
Religious
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There is a whole school of Canadian academics, media personalities, and politicians whose definition of a Canadian is a North American who fears or dislikes the United States.
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Media
Personality
School
Academics
Definition
Dislikes
Politicians
Fears
North American
Personalities
Whose
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In Canada, what I find what people are afraid of or worried about is politicians who denigrate the importance of the resource sectors, which are the basis of our trading capacity.
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Canada
People
Politician
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In fall 1967, I was given leave of absence by the National Public Affairs Research Foundation to move to Redondo Beach, California, to work on a short-term research contract with TRW.
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Beach
Fall
Moving
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Canada has had populist movements in the past, virtually since its inception. I don't think the central Canadian elites have ever understood populism at all, particularly the Western version of it.
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Past
Thinking
Western
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Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.
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Matter
Policy
Suspicion
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When we classify an issue as a 'shield issue' it is usually because we feel that someone else occupies the high ground on that issue. We feel we can't win on that issue and so we adopt a defensive posture.
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High Ground
Posture
Adopt
Classify
Defensive
Occupies
Shield
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The trouble with "sacrifices as symbolic acts" is that the immediate impact on those for whom the sacrifice is made quickly fades, while the impact on those who actually make the sacrifice can go on and on.
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Goes On
Impact
Sacrifice
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When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to engage and persuade, they further arouse public opposition rather than win support.
Preston Manning / Canadian Politician
Business Leaders
Effort
Influence
Opinion
Public Opinion
Support
Arouse
Engage
Further
Initial
Issue
Persuade
Threaten
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Why not learn from the positive aspect of Canadian populism, which is the way to deal with it? Learn from the negative side, but it's more important to learn from the positive side, because it's an enormous amount of energy.
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Energy
Important
Negative
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The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.
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Doors
People
Top Down
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When political and business leaders tell the public - any public - 'We don't trust you to make the right decision' - they prejudice that electorate against the very proposals they want it to accept and undermine public confidence in themselves.
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Confidence
Business Leaders
Decision
Electorate
Leader
Political
Prejudice
Right Decision
Accept
Proposals
Undermine
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Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it.
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Accord
Black
Black Hole
Canada
Country
Disappear
Elites
Political
Threatened
Canadians
Constitutional
Hole
Opposed
Passed
Referendum
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I think the federal Liberals' micro-tinkering is not causing any kind of upsurge in public confidence. The challenge for Conservatives is how to not get caught in the same web. I mean, the public just discounts what political people and parties say.
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Mean
Party
Thinking
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Where you find all the worries about immigration, I think the way to handle that is to listen to the person that's got concerns, and then try to move that in a positive direction, as opposed to decrying it and saying, 'Don't even raise that, you can't raise that.'
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Moving
Thinking
Worry
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There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.
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Environmental
Biodiversity
Environmental Problems
Global Warming
Including
Loss
Proliferation
Tackling
Treaties
Urban
Approaches
Effective
Global
Governments
Offered
Problems
Regulations
Warming
Ways
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There are more effective ways of tackling environmental problems – including global warming, proliferation of plastics, urban sprawl, and the loss of biodiversity – than by treaties, top-down regulations, and other approaches offered by big governments and their dependents.
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Government
Loss
Top Down
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For many years I have advocated 'redesigning Parliament' in a variety of ways - elect the Senate, do away with the 'confidence convention,' permit freer voting, strengthen the role of back benchers and committees, do away with ineffectual 'take note' debates, restructure question period, and so on.
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Committees
Parliament
Permit
Restructure
Senate
Variety
Voting
Convention
Debates
Elect
Freer
Note
Strengthen
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I think on all the debate on immigration, and all of that, the class of person that should be given the benefit of the doubt is the genuine refugee that is just in real desperate strait. Some of them are in the United States illegally because of [human] trafficking. They were caught up in trafficking, and you can argue to what extent it's their fault, to what extent they didn't know what they were getting into.
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Class
Real
Thinking
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