Canada Is A Vast And Empty Country.

There Is A Dependence In The Region That Breeds A Culture Of Defeatism.

Withdraw From The Canada Pension Plan... Collect Our Own Revenue From Personal Income Tax... Resume Provincial Responsibility For Health-care Policy. If Ottawa Objects To Provincial Policy, Fight In The Courts... [e]ach Province Should Raise Its Own Revenue For Health... It Is Imperative To Take The Initiative, To Build Firewalls Around Alberta.

I Don't Get Into That Second Guessing Of Myself Publicly.

We Have In This Country A Federal Government That Increasingly Is Engaged In Trying To Determine Which Business, Which Regions, Which Industries Will Succeed, Which Will Not Through A Whole Range Of Economic Development, Regional Development Corporate Subsidization Programs.

The World Is Now Unipolar And Contains O­nly O­ne Superpower. Canada Shares A Continent With That Superpower. In This Context, Given Our Common Values And The Political, Economic And Security Interests That We Share With The United States, There Is Now No More Important Foreign Policy Interest For Canada Than Maintaining The Ability To Exercise Effective Influence In Washington So As To Advance Unique Canadian Policy Objectives.