The Liberal Party will not vote – no Liberal member of Parliament will vote – to take away a woman’s right to choose. – Justin Trudeau
My father’s values and vision of this country obviously form everything I have as values and ideals. But this is not the ghost of my father running for the leadership of the Liberal party. This is me. – Justin Trudeau
Canada was built around a very simple premise. A promise that you can work hard and succeed and build a future for yourselves and your kids, and that future for your kids would be better than the one you had. – Justin Trudeau
I had to learn to dismiss people who would criticize me based on nothing, but I also had to learn not to believe the people who would compliment me and think I was great based on nothing. And that led me to have a very, very strong sense of myself and my strengths. – Justin Trudeau
One of the challenges that Vancouver and cities across the country are facing is that we don’t have a federal partner in terms of building for transit, not in the way we need. – Justin Trudeau
The federal government’s role is to establish a process whereby industry can pitch a project, and Canadians can be reassured that this project is worth the risk. That’s at the heart of governments granting permits and communities granting permission. People understand we do need economic growth. We do need natural resource projects. – Justin Trudeau
I’m not going to reduce the choices of Canadians at the ballot box by backroom deals or secret arrangements. I think that’s a cause for cynicism more than anything else. – Justin Trudeau
We’re committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids – there’s no question about it. – Justin Trudeau
Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don’t win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional. – Justin Trudeau
Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that’s what I do very well. – Justin Trudeau
Vancouver is home. I spent a huge amount of time here as a kid growing up with my mom, with my grandparents who lived here. – Justin Trudeau
Any decision made by my father was the result of a process that had involved many voices and which sometimes had taken weeks or months. – Justin Trudeau
I sort of locked into the idea that if I could be the perfect son to both of my parents, well maybe that would be enough to keep them together. And ultimately, obviously, it wasn’t. Regardless of what I tried to do. That was a lesson about limitations. – Justin Trudeau
You can’t run a government from one single person. What instead matters is that leadership be about gathering around extraordinary individuals and getting the best out of them. – Justin Trudeau
A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues. – Justin Trudeau
Connecting with Canadians isn’t about what you say, it’s about what you’re listening to. It’s about what you understand. – Justin Trudeau
We’re asking those who have done well to do a little more for the people who need it. – Justin Trudeau
People are very sophisticated in their concerns about various parties, in their hopes for what the next government could look like. And I’m not going to prejudge any possible outcomes. – Justin Trudeau
I am a teacher. It’s how I define myself. A good teacher isn’t someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That’s the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it’ll have to do a lot with teaching. – Justin Trudeau
I’ve made the commitment to Canadians that I’m going to stay myself, and I’m going stay open about it, and I’m going to make sure that the thoughtfulness with which I approach issues continues to shine through. – Justin Trudeau
People are very much worried that our kids are not going to inherit the same opportunities that we inherited from our parents. – Justin Trudeau
I trust Canadians to be able to look at the different parties, the different leaders, the plans, the teams, and make a responsible choice. And I’m very, very confident that’s exactly what Canadians are going to do. – Justin Trudeau
I think Canadians want to get a feel for the people who will serve them… and, for me, I think that Canadians will trust people who trust them. – Justin Trudeau
Open nominations means it is local Liberals who choose who gets to be their representative. But what that doesn’t mean is that somebody can behave any which way and bully other people out of the nomination and then be the last person standing. – Justin Trudeau
In 2012, the Liberal Party affirmed overwhelmingly at the policy convention that we are a pro-choice party. It means that we are a party that defends women’s rights, and therefore, it would be inconsistent for any Liberal MP to be able to vote to take away women’s rights. – Justin Trudeau
I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women’s rights, and I’m not a woman. – Justin Trudeau
I think people understand that if you’re going to have a successful economy, you need people’s potential to be realized. That means education. It means university education, sure, but it also means training, apprenticeships and various kinds of skills diplomas that we know are necessary. – Justin Trudeau
