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"But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion."
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"I extend that to the abortion issue, I extend that to the so-called gay rights issue, I think this is a freedom principle and consistent with the analysis in the economic area as well."

"To establish justice and to promote the general welfare, America does not need the abortion license."

"My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views."

"There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion."

"By rejecting abortion-on-demand, we can move our party back to the mainstream."

"They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion."

"If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters."

"In short, I'm not sure that the abortion problem can be solved by legislation. I think it can only be solved through moral persuasion."
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"My own views on abortion, I'm not on either pole of that and neither of the interest groups on either end of this issue would probably be comfortable with my views."


"Make no mistake. Canada is not a bilingual country. In fact it is less bilingual today than it has ever been."


"If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people."


"After all, enforced national bilingualism in this country isn't mere policy. It has attained the status of a religion. It's a dogma which o-ne is supposed to accept without question."


"I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion."


"Universality has been severely reduced: it is virtually dead as a concept in most areas of public policy."


"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."


"Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff."


"First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government."
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