This is a major public relations issue, and it's incumbent on both the government and industry to get the message to [health] consumers that they are aware of their concerns, that information will be confidential and that they will have control over who gets to see that information.

[The government was] extremely productive, ... It was extremely productive not only in the House of Commons, legislatively, but in other aspects such as negotiations with provinces and agreements for equalizations and agreements with provinces for funding on health care, for cities, communities. So we're going to continue to work in the House and with provinces in order to continue to accomplish our commitments from the Speech from the Throne.

If legislation doesn't protect habitat, how then can the government pretend that it will protect the species themselves?

Soldiers are left in the park without being fed or paid and that's a recipe for disaster. The Congolese government must urgently remove the army from this protected area and ensure that ICCN staff can continue with their official mandate to control the park.

The United States today experiences much higher levels of identity theft, spam and government profiling than Europe because we have failed to establish necessary legal safeguards.

If the U.S. Government was a company, the deficit would be $5 trillion because they would have to account by general accepted accounting principles. But actually they encourage government spending, reckless government spending, because the government can issue Treasury bills at extremely low interest rates.