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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
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Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges we're facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges we're facing.Justin Trudeau
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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
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I was a high-school teacher. I am a strong advocate for women's rights, and I'm not a woman.Justin Trudeau
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If we wander around as politicians jumping at every shadow and desperately afraid of having our words taken out of context or attacks layered on in an unfair way, I think we're actually doing a disrespect to Canadians, to people's intelligence.Justin Trudeau
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We're committed to making sure parents have affordable, quality early learning for their kids - there's no question about it.Justin Trudeau
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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
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Nobody knows better than I do what the pressures of party leadership can do to a young family. It tore mine apart.Justin Trudeau
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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.Justin Trudeau
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I trust Canadians' capacity to determine who will sit in their Parliament.Justin Trudeau
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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
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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
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Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of.Justin Trudeau
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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
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We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement.Justin Trudeau
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A very powerful mechanism to get elected is to play on anger and pick those wedge issues.Justin Trudeau
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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.Justin Trudeau