Justin Trudeau: Quotes about homeland

Justin Trudeau is 23rd Prime Minister of Canada; eldest son of Pierre Trudeau. Explore interesting quotes on country.
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“I’ve said many times that there isn’t a country in the world that would find billions of barrels of oil and leave it in the ground while there is a market for it.”

Speaking about the Trans Mountain Pipeline, as quoted by The Guardian, Canada approves controversial Kinder Morgan oil pipeline https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/29/canada-approves-kinder-morgan-oil-pipeline-justin-trudeau (30 November 2016).
2016

“Canada is an opening and welcoming society, but let me be clear. We are also a country of laws.”

Remarks after a meeting in Montreal with Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar, as reported in "'A Country of Laws': Canada's Trudeau Sounds Alarm About Illegal Immigrants" http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/08/21/canadian-prime-minister-trudeau-sounds-alarm-about-illegal-immigrants, Fox News Insider (21 August 2017)

“If you're risking your health to keep this country moving and you're making minimum wage, you deserve a raise.”

Statement https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-05-07/canada-provinces-agree-to-boost-wages-of-essential-workers-trudeau-says announcing a pay hike agreement for essential workers across the provinces during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, May 7, 2020

“Vandalizing cellphone towers does nothing but threaten emergency services and impact the daily lives of Canadians across the country.”

Statement on Twitter https://twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/status/1258215247804018698 condemning acts of vandalism against communications infrastructure https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2020/05/06/trudeau-warns-of-severe-penalties-after-fourth-cellphone-tower-torched-in-quebec.html by conspiracy theorists during the Covid-19 pandemic crisis, May 6, 2020

“I want to lead Canada. All of Canada, not just parts of Canada. ... I am not going to write off certain parts of the country just because we had a tough past 10 years. Or, tough past 100 years.”

Statement in Calgary, Alberta, a region where the Liberals have long struggled https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_alienation to gain electoral foothold, on the province's Heritage Day holiday, August 3, 2015. As quoted in Macleans https://www.macleans.ca/politics/ottawa/exorcising-the-ghost-of-trudeau-past/ discussing the subject of the lingering influence of the Trudeau name https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Energy_Program in Western Canada.