“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.

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