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"I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities."
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"The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here."
"It's my responsibility, and entirely my fault, Of course I regret it. It's the kind of locker-room conversation we all use, but as prime minister I shouldn't have used it."
"For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic."
"Trudeau's contribution was not to build Canada but to destroy it, and I had to come in and save it."
"I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities."
"I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based."
"First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously."
"There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government."
"When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands."
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