And India's expanding role as a global player means the time is ripe for Canadian Businesses and investors, from a range of sectors, to become even more active in this immense market.

He asked me if I would serve, I agreed to serve, and I think it was the right thing to do.

Canada has to take a stand, ... When it comes to negotiating with the United States, power seems to win out every day, every time.

Canada's competitive business costs are complemented by one of the highest standards of living in the world, a highly skilled workforce, access to abundant natural resources, and its position as a gateway to the North American market.

I haven't been satisfied that the program is designed to meet the core public policy objective that I think it should be trying to meet,

That's going to be a delicate exercise because it does involve essentially trying to establish defined grid of rates, but that is something that we've got together with the province on because it will be important to preserving stability,

Are we going to be stronger than the sum of our parts or are we going to be endlessly bickering among ourselves and allowing the bully to basically mop the floor with us?

We are looking for a way to describe it that is not phony and doesn't frighten people.

(We'll) ensure that we do put in place a mechanism for monitoring gas and home heating fuel prices in the months ahead,

we need to think about embedding technology and innovation right throughout the economy and not get so focused on clusters of what we think of as high-tech companies with people in white lab coats.