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[on his effort to improve poor parliamentary records] One of the things I had to make them understand in Ottawa is that they could no longer run a unilingual English shop and then have some stuff translated into crappy French. It was this 1950s boilerplate which is already bad enough, stilted enough, in English, but it was being translated into even worse French.

[as one of ten children] When my mother would have a child, my father would always bring her fourteen roses, because they decided when they were married that they would have fourteen children.. It was great. It was riotous. I can remember my mom or dad saying, 'Okay, Colleen, you take care of those two; Tom, you take care of those two', when it was time for bed.

You have to have the courage of your convictions, even when the polling numbers are against you.