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We are going to remain an important part of the coalition against ISIL.
- Justin Trudeau
#Against
#Coalition
#Going
#Important
We're going to make sure there is a strong price on carbon right across the country, and we're hoping that the provinces are going to be able to do that, in a way, for themselves.
- Justin Trudeau
#Country
#Price
#Right
#Strong
#Way
Politicians are constantly stuck between what is politically expedient and politically beneficial and what is the responsible or right thing to do. It's a tension we all go through.
- Justin Trudeau
#Go
#Politicians
#Right
#Tension
#Through
I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them.
- Justin Trudeau
#Awful
#Learning
#Listening
#Them
#Time
It's always easy to look at either the politics of division or fear as effective tools in politics, but ultimately, even though they can be effective tools to help you get elected, they hinder your ability to actually get the job of building a better future for this country, for this community, done.
- Justin Trudeau
#Community
#Fear
#Future
#Look
#Politics
My father, his values were anchored in the time, but they were also timeless, whether it's bilingualism, multiculturalism or the charter of rights and freedoms.
- Justin Trudeau
#Father
#Rights
#Time
#Timeless
#Values
For me, being able to engage with the details when necessary, when there's a challenge, when there's a particularly important pivot, yes, you have to do that. But in general, a leader needs to trust their commanders, needs to trust the team they've assembled, to actually execute in the right way.
- Justin Trudeau
#Details
#Important
#Me
#Trust
#Way
I think Canadians have always been interested in the choices Americans make because the choices you make inevitably impact upon us... and how we make sure that we get that balance right between continuing to have a good relationship and standing for the things we believe in is what we expect of ourselves.
- Justin Trudeau
#Balance
#Believe
#Good
#Relationship
#Us
The federal government shouldn't be drawing lines on a map in terms of what transit infrastructure are needed; we should be there to be a partner with the cities, with the provinces, that need that.
- Justin Trudeau
#Drawing
#Government
#Map
#Need
#Partner
As a prime minister, my job is not to try and influence or opine on what a leader of a different country should be doing.
- Justin Trudeau
#Country
#Doing
#Influence
#Job
#Try
There is no debate about whether or not climate change is happening. We will deal with it as a challenge. But we also take it as an opportunity to invest.
- Justin Trudeau
#Change
#Climate
#Debate
#Opportunity
In regards to the United States, Canadians expect me to stand up for our values and defend our interests and to have a constructive relationship with our largest trading partner and closest neighbour.
- Justin Trudeau
#Me
#Partner
#Relationship
#Stand Up
#Up
We went through a long phase where we defined ourselves in opposition to other people and other countries.
- Justin Trudeau
#Long
#Opposition
#People
#Phase
#Through
We're investing billions of dollars in housing, in home care on the medical side. We're investing billions of dollars in public transit that is not just creating good jobs now but is going to help people get to and from their good jobs in more reliable ways.
- Justin Trudeau
#Care
#Good
#Home
#Medical
#People
We need to make sure that everyone's pulling their weight and doing their fair share. Canadians get that, including the wealthy Canadians I talk to.
- Justin Trudeau
#Doing
#Everyone
#Fair
#Need
#Talk
I believe it is wrong for Canada to follow the path of countries who exploit large numbers of guest workers, who have no realistic prospect of citizenship. It is bad for our economy in that it depresses wages for all Canadians, but it's even worse for our country.
- Justin Trudeau
#Bad
#Believe
#Country
#Numbers
#Path
Throughout our history, Canada's immigration policy has brought people here who had a pathway to citizenship. They were - and are - nation builders. It has been supported by political parties of all stripes and promoted by successive governments over generations.
- Justin Trudeau
#Citizenship
#History
#People
#Political
Parents are the centre of a person's solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most, so his absence was bound to leave a deep and lasting void.
- Justin Trudeau
#Dad
#Deep
#Parents
#Person
#Stronger
Of all the memories I have of my father and of our relationship, none is warmer and more poignant than what happened a year before he died, when he came to visit me while I was teaching at West Point Grey Academy in Vancouver.
- Justin Trudeau
#Father
#Grey
#Me
#Memories
#Relationship
One of the jokes among our family was that whenever Dad went to the movies, he insisted on getting his senior citizen's discount. It was laughable to view him as a traditional senior citizen; he was one of the most robust people I ever knew. Until, very suddenly, he wasn't.
- Justin Trudeau
#Dad
#Family
#Movies
#People
#View
Liberals will continue to put forward positive solutions that will help our economy grow and give all Canadians a real and fair chance at success.
- Justin Trudeau
#Chance
#Grow
#Positive
#Real
#Success
I have nothing against wealth; I believe that government has a role to play in creating it by supporting pro-growth policies. However, success comes with responsibility.
- Justin Trudeau
#Government
#Responsibility
#Success
We provide our citizens upward mobility through economic opportunity.
- Justin Trudeau
#Economic
#Mobility
#Opportunity
#Through
Income splitting is a cynical policy, designed by a tired government short on ideas, now reheating old concoctions as their next campaign policy menu.
- Justin Trudeau
#Campaign
#Government
#Ideas
#Menu
#Tired
Income splitting is not a wise investment for Canadians.
- Justin Trudeau
#Income
#Investment
#Splitting
#Wise
I want my sons to escape the pressure to be a particular kind of masculine that is so damaging to men and to the people around them.
- Justin Trudeau
#Escape
#Men
#People
#Pressure
#Want
I am in politics because every day, I get to work to make the world a little better - for my kids and for yours.
- Justin Trudeau
#Day
#I Am
#Politics
#Work
#World
I think this is the story of this country, that you get to come here and build a better future for yourself and for your neighbours than you could have anywhere else in the world.
- Justin Trudeau
#Better
#Country
#Future
#World
#Yourself
I don't put a lot of stock into polls.
- Justin Trudeau
#Lot
#Polls
#Put
#Stock
I think that Canadians in general very much understand... that we need to engage in the world and stand up for human rights.
- Justin Trudeau
#Need
#Stand Up
#Stand
#Understand
#World
The best counter to the kind of radicalization and marginalization that we've seen in other parts of the world is to create an inclusive society where everyone, including especially Muslim Canadians, have every opportunity to succeed, just like anybody else.
- Justin Trudeau
#Best
#Just
#Opportunity
#Society
#World
As soon as you're locking doors, you're narrowing your circle. And your circle gets smaller and smaller until it's finally just yourself and your buddy and you've got no one to party with.
- Justin Trudeau
#Circle
#Doors
#Finally
#Your
#Yourself
Much more a skiing family than a hockey family, my dad wasn't a big fan of the arenas early in the morning on the weekends.
- Justin Trudeau
#Big Fan
#Big
#Dad
#Family
#Morning
If you're a progressive, you really should be a feminist because it's about equality, it's about respect, it's about making the best of the world that we have.
- Justin Trudeau
#About
#Best
#Equality
#Respect
#World
I became a high school teacher for many years because it was a very tangible, concrete way where I could make a difference, and quite frankly, the kids didn't care who my father had been, because it was late '90s; none of them were around or remembered my father.
- Justin Trudeau
#Care
#Make A Difference
#School
#Teacher
What I was raised with in terms of a call to service was just a sense that I was lucky.
- Justin Trudeau
#Call
#Just
#Lucky
#Sense
#Service
I am so proud to be my mother's son.
- Justin Trudeau
#Am
#I Am
#Mother
#Proud
#Son
I am so proud of my family, and I am happy to give them all the limelight they want because heaven knows I got more than I need.
- Justin Trudeau
#Family
#Happy
#Heaven
#I Am Happy
#I Am
People in the street will either call me 'Prime Minister' or 'Justin.' We'll see how that goes. But when I'm working, when I'm with my staff in public, I'm 'Prime Minister.' I say that if we're drinking beer out of a bottle, and you can see my tattoos, you should be comfortable calling me 'Justin.'
- Justin Trudeau
#Beer
#Me
#People
#See
#Street
Certainly in a world where terrorism is a daily reality in the news, it's easy for people to be afraid. But the fact is that we laid out very clearly - and Canadians get - that it's actually not a choice between either immigration or security: that of course they go together.
- Justin Trudeau
#Choice
#Daily
#Reality
#Together
#World
I think it's always been understood that Canada is not a country that's going to stand up and beat its chest on the world stage, but we can be very helpful in modelling solutions that work.
- Justin Trudeau
#Country
#Stand Up
#Stand
#Work
#World
We're actually able to approve pipelines at a time when everyone wants protection of the environment. We're being able to show that we get people's fears, and there are constructive ways of allaying them - and not just ways to lash out and give a big kick to the system.
- Justin Trudeau
#Big
#Everyone
#Kick
#People
#Time
We were able to sign free trade agreement with Europe at a time when people tend to be closing off.
- Justin Trudeau
#Closing
#Europe
#Free
#People
#Time
My mom has always been so generous and so sensitive and so vulnerable and yet exudes so much strength.
- Justin Trudeau
#Always
#Been
#Mom
#Sensitive
#Strength
A Canadian on the ground in different parts of the world, whether they're a diplomat, an aid worker, or a soldier, has an extraordinary, powerful impact.
- Justin Trudeau
#Extraordinary
#Impact
#Powerful
#World
Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months.
- Justin Trudeau
#Decision
#Father
#Process
#Result
#Which
I have no fears that on a purely merit basis, we will have an embarrassment of riches from which to choose in order to reach gender parity.
- Justin Trudeau
#Embarrassment
#Gender
#Order
#Will
Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges we're facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges we're facing.
- Justin Trudeau
#Believe
#Good
#Politics
#Together
#Work
I trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.
- Justin Trudeau
#Capacity
#Parliament
#Sit
#Trust
#Will
My father found cocktail parties challenging.
- Justin Trudeau
#Cocktail
#Father
#Found
#Parties
It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.
- Justin Trudeau
#I Am
#Important
#Just
#People
#Political
People still think there's sort of a debate around the Charter that politicos go into. And I get wrapped up in it, too, from time to time.
- Justin Trudeau
#Debate
#Go
#People
#Time
#Up
Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.
- Justin Trudeau
#Better
#Family
#Leadership
#Mine
#Nobody
We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement.
- Justin Trudeau
#Choices
#Education
#Feel
#Future
#People
When I get out across the country and listen to people, the resentment that I see and the frustration that I see is that we have a generation of people who are fairly convinced that their kids are not going to have a better quality of life or a better future than they will.
- Justin Trudeau
#Frustration
#Future
#Life
#Quality
#See
I think Canadians want to get a feel for the people who will serve them... and, for me, I think that Canadians will trust people who trust them.
- Justin Trudeau
#Feel
#Me
#People
#Trust
#Will
I think Canadians are tired of politicians that are spun and scripted within an inch of their life, people who are too afraid of what a focus group might say about one comment or a political opponent might try to twist out of context, to actually say much of anything at all.
- Justin Trudeau
#Focus
#Life
#People
#Political
#Tired
When my father died, I had millions of people supporting me in a very, very difficult time. I have received so much from this country. I realize that we're defined in life not by what we get from this world but by what we have to offer it, and I know that I have a lot to offer this country, and I'm serious about devoting my life to it.
- Justin Trudeau
#Life
#Me
#My Life
#Time
#World
I have been incredibly lucky all my life. I've had a family that has loved me and given me incredible opportunities. I've gone to great schools. I've travelled across the country.
- Justin Trudeau
#Family
#Great
#Life
#Me
#My Life
I think we need to price carbon; there's no question about it. The way we do it needs to be based on science and not political debates and attacks, and that's why I'm drawing on experts and best practices from around the world.
- Justin Trudeau
#Best
#Political
#Science
#Way
#World
I think I'd work on making sure that Canadians have opportunities to find good jobs, to grow, to gain stability in terms of pensions. The reality is that Canadians don't feel that our economy is working for us.
- Justin Trudeau
#Feel
#Good
#Grow
#Reality
#Work
I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes.
- Justin Trudeau
#Need
#Pretty
#Taxes
#Think
#Where
Canadians want to elect good people to be their voice in Ottawa.
- Justin Trudeau
#Good People
#Good
#People
#Voice
#Want
When I get passionate or worked up about an issue, I say things that the Conservatives and opponents and critics like to pounce on.
- Justin Trudeau
#Critics
#Like
#Say
#Things
#Up
Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most.
- Justin Trudeau
#Benefit
#Child
#Need
#Our
#Who
We're asking those who have done well to do a little more for the people who need it.
- Justin Trudeau
#Done
#More
#Need
#People
#Well
I have no regrets.
- Justin Trudeau
#No Regrets
#Regrets
I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths.
- Justin Trudeau
#Believe
#Great
#Me
#Myself
#People
Ours was not a normal or easy life.
- Justin Trudeau
#Easy
#Life
#Normal
#Ours
Connecting with Canadians isn't about what you say, it's about what you're listening to. It's about what you understand.
- Justin Trudeau
#About
#Listening
#Say
#Understand
#You
People are very sophisticated in their concerns about various parties, in their hopes for what the next government could look like. And I'm not going to prejudge any possible outcomes.
- Justin Trudeau
#Government
#Look
#Next
#People
#Possible
For me, I've always been Justin Trudeau, son of. All my life I've had to know I was carrying a name, and people were paying more attention to what I had to say, and I had to make a choice early on.
- Justin Trudeau
#Choice
#Life
#Me
#My Life
#People
Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn't mean is that somebody can behave any which way and bully other people out of the nomination and then be the last person standing.
- Justin Trudeau
#Mean
#People
#Person
#Standing
#Way
Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional.
- Justin Trudeau
#People
#Politics
#Situation
#Time
#Win
One of the challenges that Vancouver and cities across the country are facing is that we don't have a federal partner in terms of building for transit, not in the way we need.
- Justin Trudeau
#Building
#Challenges
#Country
#Need
#Way
Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here.
- Justin Trudeau
#Growing Up
#Home
#Mom
#Time
#Up
People are very much worried that our kids are not going to inherit the same opportunities that we inherited from our parents.
- Justin Trudeau
#Going
#Kids
#Parents
#People
#Same
In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women's rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women's rights.
- Justin Trudeau
#Policy
#Pro-Choice
#Rights
#Vote
#Women
We require Canadians who are collecting EI benefits to prove they are looking for work. It's only fair that we require employers looking to benefit from the Temporary Foreign Worker Program to prove they really need it.
- Justin Trudeau
#Looking
#Need
#Prove
#Temporary
#Work
I'm not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that's a cause for cynicism more than anything else.
- Justin Trudeau
#Anything
#Box
#Choices
#More
#Secret
If a middle-class family in Shanghai or Guangzhou is looking for a good-quality product, we want them to look at a maple leaf and say, 'OK, it's good quality.'
- Justin Trudeau
#Family
#Good
#Look
#Looking
#Quality
I've made the commitment to Canadians that I'm going to stay myself, and I'm going stay open about it, and I'm going to make sure that the thoughtfulness with which I approach issues continues to shine through.
- Justin Trudeau
#Commitment
#Myself
#Shine
#Stay
#Through
The Northwest Passage is Canadian. People can't just abuse it.
- Justin Trudeau
#Abuse
#Canadian
#Just
#Passage
#People
Withdrawing support from globalization is taking us in the wrong direction.
- Justin Trudeau
#Direction
#Globalization
#Support
#Wrong
One of the reasons why Canadians are generally positively inclined towards immigration is we've seen over decades, over generations, that it works.
- Justin Trudeau
#Immigration
#Over
#Seen
#Towards
#Why
The back and forth between the press and government is essential to any good democracy.
- Justin Trudeau
#Back
#Democracy
#Good
#Government
#Press
My whole life has been about figuring out the balance between knowing who I am and being who I am and accepting that people will come to me with all sorts of preconceptions.
- Justin Trudeau
#Balance
#I Am
#Life
#Me
#People
I sort of locked into the idea that if I could be the perfect son to both of my parents, well maybe that would be enough to keep them together. And ultimately, obviously, it wasn't. Regardless of what I tried to do. That was a lesson about limitations.
- Justin Trudeau
#Enough
#Parents
#Perfect
#Son
#Together
Quite frankly, I talk about the fact that I'm a feminist as often as I can, and every time I do, it gets huge reaction, and media reacts, and the Twitterverse explodes and things like that, because here I am saying I'm a feminist. I will keep saying that until there is no more reaction to that when I say it, because that's where we want to get to.
- Justin Trudeau
#I Am
#I Can
#Media
#Time
#Will
Canadians are nice and polite. It's not just a stereotype.
- Justin Trudeau
#Just
#Nice
#Polite
#Stereotype
Some people have come to admire Stephen Harper's style because he's standing at the top of the pyramid - that's not leadership to me.
- Justin Trudeau
#Admire
#Leadership
#Me
#People
#Style
My mother is brilliant but emotional and very much gregarious and connected to people. My father was brilliant but focused and driven and very narrow-casted.
- Justin Trudeau
#Connected
#Father
#Mother
#People
#Very
One of the fundamental responsibilities of any Canadian prime minister is to get our resources to market.
- Justin Trudeau
#Canadian
#Get
#Market
#Our
#Resources
Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well.
- Justin Trudeau
#Believe
#Make A Difference
#Politics
As someone who grew up with a father who was the prime minister, many people liked me, and many didn't. I don't pay much attention to labels and certainly don't let people define me through the labels they apply. I stay focused on what I need to do.
- Justin Trudeau
#Father
#Me
#People
#Stay Focused
#Stay
We're looking to make sure things are fair, and we're always looking at ways to lower taxes for the middle class and raise them on the wealthiest one per cent.
- Justin Trudeau
#Always
#Looking
#Middle Class
#Taxes
I think people are understanding that I'm immensely proud of my father. If people talk to me about him, I'll certainly respond. And there's a certain generation that still talks about him right off. And I take that with gratefulness and with gratitude.
- Justin Trudeau
#Father
#Generation
#Gratitude
#Me
#Proud
I think it's hard to know how one deals in situations of confrontation until you're actually in there, so I'm not going to speculate on what I would do.
- Justin Trudeau
#Deals
#Going
#Hard
#Know
#Think
People don't believe that any politician is any different from any other one.
- Justin Trudeau
#Believe
#Different
#People
#Politician
Gender equality is not only an issue for women and girls.
- Justin Trudeau
#Equality
#Gender
#Issue
#Only
#Women
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