“For the foreseeable future, Canada will have to be functionally bimetric, as well as a bilingual, country.”
Source: Game Theory and Canadian Politics (1998), Chapter 4, Models of Metrication, p. 58.
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“Your task is not to foresee the future, but to enable it.”
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New Brunswick Telegraph Journal, May 29, 2002.
2002
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"On Sir John A. Macdonald" Toronto Star (October 9, 1964)
Introduction, p. xxv
The Age of Fallibility (2006)
Context: We must recognize that as the dominant power in the world we have a special responsibility. In addition to protecting our national interests, we must take the leadership in protecting the common interests of humanity. I go into some detail as to what that entails.
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Lecture on opening a new library at Sutton High School (24 September 1938) during the Munich crisis, as quoted in "Books As Source Of Inner Strength," The Times (26 September 1938), p. 19
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Fortune, My Foe (1949).