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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

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Justin Trudeau
Age: 52
Born: 1971
Born: December 25
Actor
Member Of The Canadian House Of Commons
Politician
Teacher
Ottawa (Ontario)
Justin Pierre James Trudeau
Canadians
Connecting
Listening
Understand

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So having a little more of an awareness of what's going on in the rest of the world I think is what many Canadians would hope for Americans.
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Things fell into place and there was an opportunity for fresh leadership. And - I was - I was successful.
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Excluding citizens' voices from politics leads down a very bad path.
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Ultimately, it is the people who judge, through elections, whether someone governs well or not. It's not up to other politicians to define and determine our colleagues.
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People think that boxing is all about how hard you can hit your opponent. It's not. Boxing is about how hard a hit you can take and keep going.
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I'm happy when people decide that they are more aligned with me and my party but they should also think about being active and aligned with the parties that disagree with me on certain issues.
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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.
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Canada must be progressive, and Canada must be a just society.
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Ultimately, being open and respectful towards each other is much more powerful as a way to diffuse hatred and anger than, you know, layering on, you know, big walls and oppressive policies.
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The world today is a very different one. Social media, which I use as a way of connecting with people, is something that my father never got to use. I'm not worried about defending my father's legacy. I'm very much worried about what the future holds.
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We're getting companies to invest in Canada, to expand their workforces, to do more R&D. I think people are looking at Canada and realizing we're a place that is building for the long term and where the world's going to be.
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I look at what I have as a challenge and I could list a whole bunch of different challenges. And I choose not to be daunted by any of them.
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My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.
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Canada has some very, very dark histories, from internments to turning away the St. Louis and the Komagata Maru, but none is darker than our abject failure to respect rights, the spirit and intent of the original treaties with First Nations, Métis Nation, and Inuit peoples. We have to transform that relationship.
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Let's try and bring out the best in all of us and a positive vision of working together to solve big problems, to recognize that, yes, all is not right, things need to be fixed. We're better off solving things by working together than by pointing fingers at other people.
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Every time, every time a tourist or an immigrant or a refugee shows up in another country there's a security risk.
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Our shared histories and common values make us natural trading partners and we will continue to work with both the United Kingdom and the European Union as we move forward with this new decision.
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The most important thing the federal government can do is actually sit down with municipal leaders and provincial premiers to talk about the challenges they're facing in their particular areas. That's something I've committed to being a much better partner on than this current government, which doesn't like to talk to other levels of government.
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You cannot let yourself be defined by the hopes that you will fulfill the darkest wishes of your opponents.
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I am entirely confident that the extraordinary women we have running for us right across Canada will make excellent cabinet ministers.
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