One of the things that we have to realize is we cannot get off gas, we cannot get off oil, fossil fuels tomorrow - it's going to take a few decades. Maybe we can shorten it, but there's going to have to be a transition time.
I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.
As politicians, we're very, very much trained to say something and stick with it.
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.
I'm not worried too much about left, right spectrum; I'm worried about what's actually going to work to help Canadians who are worried about their own jobs, about their kids' jobs.
My mom has always been so generous and so sensitive and so vulnerable and yet exudes so much strength.
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.
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.
It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.
The back and forth between the press and government is essential to any good democracy.
