Stockwell Day Quotes (61 Quotes)

Our two major parties are actually called the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party.

The real intolerance in Canadian society is shown by those who would deny people of faith the right to participate in public life.

Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.

This may sound bizarre to some of you, but in Canada, one of the two legislative branches never go to the electorate. This is the Senate, which, like the Supreme Court, is appointed by the Government..and is therefore Liberal-dominated.

In the United States, commentators recognize that, generally speaking, most people who hold liberal positions over a range of issues will likely vote Democratic, while most people, again generally speaking, who hold conservative positions will vote Republican.

Tourism, viticulture and agriculture, logging and mining, ranching and manufacturing and ever-increasing numbers of small and medium-sized businesses are just a few of the industries, within this diverse riding, that help maintain a growing economy.

Our Parliamentary system has simply failed to meet the challenge of judicial activism.

The United States began life in a moment of time with a Declaration of Independence, and then proceeded to secure that new and distinct national existence by establishing a formal set of ground rules - a written constitution, which outlined the institutions of government of the new nation.

Canada is founded upon principles that recognize the supremacy of God and the rule of law.

It is a tribute to the common sense of balance of the Canadian people that the gravitational alignment of all of these left-leaning forces has not pulled us further into left-field than we already are.

What exactly do the Liberals think Martha is going to do to us ... Are they afraid she'll throw her apple pies at us, or maybe wrap us up in her prison poncho.

I have no fear of her burying us with her prison poncho throwing a homemade pie, ... She's no threat to Canada. They should let her in.

A conservative knows that there are limits to what we can change, that there are some things that government cannot and should not do. Liberals and socialists, on the other hand, are convinced that by interfering with the free market they can create a better economy, or that by social engineering they can create a new and improved human nature.

The typical journalist's typical lead for the typical Canadian story nowadays is along this line: that Canadians are hard at work trying to gain a reputation as a nation of rapid social change.

The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.

After 30 years of Pearson-Trudeau-Mulroney economic liberalism, the federal Government discovered, by observing the provinces, that the fiscal conservatism of Mackenzie King and St. Laurent had been right all along.

Commentators speak today of Republican domination of both Houses of Congress and the Presidency, but this is recent and exceptional - and it will presumably not last, as all parties will have to go back to the electorate, beginning with the House of Representatives in November 2006.

condemned the actions of Canadians who have joined this band of terrorist thugs and murderers who are murdering and killing innocent people in Iraq

Judges must be free from political intervention or intimidation.

I wish the government and the Minister of Justice would address these legal and constitutional arguments, but they refuse to. They want Canadians to go blindly into their brave new world, but it is not wise for a society to move blindly in any direction.

Our national media refuses to report that even the Supreme Court did not say marriage was a human right in all cases nor did it say that the heterosexual definition violated anyone's right or that the heterosexual definition of marriage was unconstitutional.

Like 84% of Canadians, I believe in God.

Provincial governments in Canada have terminated the positions of marriage commissioners who have, for personal religious convictions, not performed same sex marriages. It has happened in Saskatchewan.

It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.

Since 1962, violent crimes have increased from about 219 per 100,000 people to over 1000 per 100,000 people-a 500 increase. Divorce has increased from 36 per 10,000 people to 250-a greater than 600 increase.

My parents did not have a perfect marriage. It was pretty good, but it was not perfect. My marriage is not perfect. My wife is, but I happen to be imperfect. However, that does not discount the fact that the definition of marriage must be defended and protected.

It is a brave new world, one that I do not think most Canadians, when they fully understand its implications, will want.

I am more convinced than ever that a lively two party system is essential to our democracy.

They have a pathological pursuit (of power) and they're capable of anything.

Tony Blair faced a massive defection from his own party ranks during voting around the intervention in Iraq. For our present purpose, the point is not that he survived the defection, but that he had to face it.

Over the past quarter-century, with breathtaking speed, our courts are retooling the entire history of Canadian jurisprudence.

We have worked our way by painful steps - usually two steps forward, one step backward-over the last decade towards this moment where a Conservative party may present a plausible alternative government.

The thinking was that so long as the British kept our basic documents in their hands and so long as they kept the formal right to change them, changes in our system would be careful and deliberate.

Fewer heterosexuals feel legally compelled to officially marry and more children are born outside of marriage's traditional terms. Some people may say that is a good thing. Some may say that it is not. That is simply a fact, and it is tragic that the notion of what is best for children gets so little discussion in this debate.

Following the move for marriage to include homosexual, lesbian, bi-sexual, and transgender relationships, will polygamists demand to be included also Of course they will. They already are asking to be included. Even non-religious polygamist groups in Canada are asking as well as those who are polygamists within their religions.

If the pollster asks the constitutionally accurate question, should the definition of marriage remain with a man and a woman as long as homosexual couples still have equality when it comes to benefits, most Canadians will say to leave the definition of marriage alone and let homosexuals have equal and beneficial unions also.

I liked his style. I found him to be very open. He didn't try -- as federal ministers often do with provincial ministers -- the divide and conquer strategy,

If the Liberals' law is passed, will sex education in the schools, including elementary grades, include the same portrayals of sexual activity which presently exist in heterosexual instruction? Will there be the same presentation of homosexual activity? Of course there will.

Among the majority of my constituents who believe we should live and let live, including letting the heterosexual definition of marriage live, many have asked me to search out the following questions for them so that they can more fully understand the consequences of the Liberals' legislation and then decide if they like it or not.

For some decades now, it seems, there has been a ukase in place in American journalism to the effect that Canada is entitled to one story per season.

It is said that a neo-conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality.

Marriage commissioners who choose not to marry homosexuals are being fired. A Knights of Columbus chapter in British Columbia is in court because it chooses not allow a lesbian group to use its facility for marriage ceremonies. The list goes on.

It should also be acknowledged that just because a person or a group demands a certain right, or says that a right exists, does not mean that the right exists either in relative or absolute terms just because they demand it. There is no absolute right for

This is not a normal process or procedure nor do we want to see it become that.

The fact of the matter is that there was no definitive plan to remove Canadians before Katrina hit and now there are Canadians stranded and fighting for their lives,

The rights and freedoms that citizens enjoy - give a little here take a little there - are still the same as they were in the beginning.

This is a country founded by Conservatives such as John A. Macdonald and George-Etienne Cartier for the profoundly conservative purposes of preserving the British identity of English Canada and the Catholic identity of French Canada.

Liberals have no trouble with the thieves amongst themselves, but they can't handle someone who has paid her price to society.

Individuals have little opportunity to get elected to Parliament under the label of the government party... unless they are in good standing with the Prime Minister and pledged to be cooperative.