Jeff Roach

“We are not engaged in a war against “one of the most dangerous enemies our world has ever faced,” as Stephen Harper recently claimed in reference to ISIL, the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant. Talk such as that, especially on the part of a sitting prime minister, is unconscionable and an affront to all those who served in two world wars, including my uncles, who must be rolling over in their graves.”
― Tom Mulcair, Strength of Conviction

“Politics and the stock market are the two most ruthless environments outside an actual battlefield. The market creates and destroys wealth; politics creates and destroys power. Power and wealth are both highly prized, and those who acquire large amounts of either are unlikely to be gentle souls.”
― John Ibbitson, Stephen Harper

“Learning what laws can do, for good or ill, to transform society was a revelation.”
― Tom Mulcair, Strength of Conviction

“The open-mindedness we were taught, that willingness and desire to hear out the other side of an argument, is also fundamentally, profoundly a Canadian value.”
― Tom Mulcair, Strength of Conviction