Justin Trudeau: Doing

Justin Trudeau is 23rd Prime Minister of Canada; eldest son of Pierre Trudeau. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“Sunny ways my friends, sunny ways. This is what positive politics can do.”

October 20, 2015 (quoting Sir Wilfrid Laurier), reported in Joe O'Connor, 'Sunny ways my friends, sunny ways': Lessons of Wilfrid Laurier not lost on Trudeau, 120 years later http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/canadian-politics/sunny-ways-my-friends-sunny-ways-lessons-of-wilfrid-laurier-not-lost-on-trudeau-115-years-later, National Post (October 21, 2015). <br class="br">2015

“It's an old idea from the 19th century. It is something that is not relevant to the vibrant, extraordinary, culture that is Quebec as Quebec is an amazing part of Canada. Nationalism is based on a smallness of thought that closes in, that builds up barriers between people, and has nothing to do with the Canada we should be building. It stands against everything my father ever believed.”

Justin Trudeau

Responding to Michael Ignatieff's Quebec nationalism proposal during a CTV interview on Canada AM.
2017

“The Liberal Party believes that terrorists should get to keep their Canadian citizenship … because I do, And I'm willing to take on anyone who disagrees with that.”

Justin Trudeau

(4 July 2015) as reported by CTV News 27 September 2015 http://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/in-audio-recording-trudeau-says-bill-c-24-makes-citizenship-conditional-upon-good-behaviour-1.2583849

“Call us old-fashioned, but we think that we ought to avoid doing precisely what our enemies want us to do. They want us to elevate them, to give in to fear, to indulge in hatred, to eye one another with suspicion and to take leave of our faculties”

Justin Trudeau

February 8, 2016 BBC Article https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35526255 (later misquoted)

“Everyone's got peer pressure at this age. I mean there's pressure to smoke, there's pressure to do all sorts of stuff. And, um, I've never been affected by peer pressure. Never.”

Justin Trudeau

Source: An eighteen-year-old Trudeau on supporting the minority-held position https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B8IrpWVaoE of Québec federalism among his fellow students at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coll%C3%A8ge_Jean-de-Br%C3%A9beuf, late 1980s <br class="br">Context: before leading Liberals