Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for yourselves and your kids, and that future for your kids would be better than the one you had.
I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women’s rights, and I’m not a woman.
We’re committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids – there’s no question about it.
You can’t run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them.
Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.
My father’s values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me.
I trust Canadians’ capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.
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.
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.
Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you’re never going to deliver – that’s the kind of cynical politics that I don’t want any part of.
A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.
My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.