I Will Strive To Make This Not

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.

I Know Economists Will Say Well, We Could Run A Small Deficit But The Problem Is That Once You Cross That Line As We See In The United States, Nothing Stops Deficits From Getting Larger And Larger And Spiralling Out Of Control.

It Is Imperative To Take The Initiative, To Build Firewalls Around Alberta, To Limit The Extent To Which An Aggressive And Hostile Federal Government Can Encroach Upon Legitimate Provincial Jurisdiction.

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.

The Treatment Of Children In Indian Residential Schools Is A Sad Chapter In Our History... Two Primary Objectives Of The Residential Schools System Were To Remove And Isolate Children From The Influence Of Their Homes, Families, Traditions And Cultures, And To Assimilate Them Into The Dominant Culture.