Kim Campbell Quotes

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• Canada is the homeland of equality, justice and tolerance.
• Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of…
• For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly…
• There are certain things in gun control that have a certain public appeal, but when you're legislating you need to look at the research on…
• There's no evidence that registering guns reduces the level of gun violence. It's not that I don't think it's something worth doing, (but) it's something…
• For over 20 years, the federal and provincial governments have made enormous efforts employing a variety of approaches in an attempt to stimulate Montreal's economy.
• Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised.
• Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.
• For too many, to work means having less income.
• I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind.
• The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.
• If you never encounter anything in your community that offends you, then you are not living in a free society.
• Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.
• For people on social assistance, the loss of free dental care, prescription drugs and subsidized housing can greatly outweigh additional income from working. We've all…
• Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.
• To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role…
• In all modesty, we must admit that governments are not always the best doctors when it comes to diagnosing economic ailments and prescribing the right…
• Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems…
• On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of…
• We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays.

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