This election is wide open because Canadians have a real, a positive and a progressive choice: the option to choose a real alternative to the Liberal broken promises and Conservative wrong-headedness.

Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey.

My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we’ll change the world.

I'd put it this way: Canadians want politicians to work together on their behalf. So that's what I'm committed to doing. I think it's been the goal of every NDP leader. Because we had a profound belief that we could do a good job on behalf of Canadians... if we were given that opportunity.

I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.

We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.