Bond yields in Canada should go up. The economy is very robust and producing at full capacity, and the Bank of Canada may continue to raise interest rates.

If we are a national institution, we must as a party reunite in rural and agricultural Canada. We can't be a national institution if we're only going for votes in Vancouver, Montreal and Halifax.

Prince Edward comes to Canada every year. He is president of the Duke of Edinburgh Awards, and so he comes pretty well every year for ... the presentations. And often he'll drop in and do something else while he is travelling, so we are not looking at a kind of highly organized royal visit.

[One study involved killer whales at Marineland in Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. An inventive male devised a brand new way to catch birds, and passed the strategy on to his tank-mates. The 4-year-old orca lures gulls into his tank by spitting regurgitated fish onto the water's surface. He waits below for a gull to grab the fish, then lunges at it with open jaws.] They are in a way setting a trap, ... They catch three or four gulls this way some days.

After the first seven minutes, we basically played them even. There are no moral victories but I liked the fact that we didn't back down and we didn't go away.

Canada appears content to become a second-tier socialistic country, boasting ever more loudly about its economy and social services to mask its second-rate status.