John McCallum Quotations

We rearrange the tables, put out some posters. It takes some effort, but the bakery totally morphs into a different store,

(I) am grateful to David Dingwall for the great job he did, not only financially, but it's also clear he strengthened the morale and the pride of the organization,

If the implication of what I say is that Western countries as a whole would have to reduce their share of the pie, then I'm sure that Canada would be willing to make its fair contribution.

Unless we see something really good that I haven't heard about yet, I would find it extremely unlikely that we could vote for a budget that has a reverse Robin Hood proposal like the income tax hike.

It appears it's a process of taking money out of the pockets of poor people and putting money into the pockets of rich people.

I think that's reflected in the comment of the union leader who said Mr. Dingwall was worth every penny he got. So he clearly did a very good job at the mint.

I think it will be a reverse Robin Hood budget.

You know I just want to find my parents, and give them a hug for allowing me to be able to be here, and not go through something like that, because that is just something terrible, what they are experiencing right now, and just the fact that I was able to go down and help is great.

We're also talking about a lot of other commodities.

We are absolutely determined to fight for what we believe is a much fairer tax cut and a much more competitive tax cut, which is the Liberal one as opposed to the GST cut, which all the experts agree is the worst possible measure.

There are many pressing issues in this file and the prime minister has told me I have all the decision-making powers and freedoms of a regular minister and so to that end I will be as soon as possible visiting with my provincial counterparts and also with the stakeholders,

The government has come to the conclusion that that is the appropriate amount that he should receive.

Beyond the 450,000 barrels of (crude) oil per day is the much more important point that this is the future of the global economy and it's fundamentally in our interests that we become a part of it,

As the prime minister made very clear, we are very serious about the United States respecting the rules of NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement),

Coming from a government that's torn up agreements on child care, it's not beyond the realm of possibility that they'd tear up agreements with Newfoundland and Nova Scotia.

I've been there and I've done that. We had ready-made proposals in procurement and service delivery which we already used. We really only had to find $5 billion, and he has to find $22 billion, fast. And they're going to tell him the only way you can do that is to lay off people.

This is not unusual. The details of this are being worked out -- no decision has been made. All I can say is that anything he might receive in that regard is standard for a person in his situation.

This is not unusual, ... The details of this are being worked out - no decision has been made.

This government is either missing in action or moving in the wrong direction.

This budget puts ideology before economics and policy, and fails to provide a sound economic vision for the future.

It will be a huge task, with major implications on jobs and users of government programs.

It's not every day that your sitting state senator takes on a run for Congress, and we need to see how that plays out.

The federal government is swimming in cash and there is absolutely no reason to increase income taxes on hard-working Canadians.

In celebrating the 50th anniversary of Canada's program of universal polio vaccination, we are indeed recognizing an important milestone in Canadian history, ... Although many of our memories associated with polio are somber, this stamp is a celebration of the fact that polio is indeed just a memory in Canada .

If Nafta is called into question by U.S. action, it calls for us to diversify our trade and investment relations. On the Chinese side I am sure there will be receptivity.

I regret having inadvertently given the wrong information,

Clearly they are ambitious in their thinking, ... They are definitely, seriously interested.