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For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.
Brian Mulroney
Future
Strength
Example
Year
Our
Resources
Hundred
Hundred Years
Minister
About
Arctic
He
Prime
Prime Minister
For Example
Importance
Talked
Coming
Years
Canada
Going
Now
Right
Earlier
You have to spend your political capital on great causes for your country.
Brian Mulroney
Great
You
Political
Country
Spend
Political Capital
Causes
Capital
Your
I am not denying anything I did not say.
Brian Mulroney
Say
Am
Denying
Did
Anything
We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen.
Brian Mulroney
Government
Money
Political
Gave
Our
Thrust
Part
Environment
Make
Policies
Make It Happen
Priority
Integral
Integral Part
Happen
Sustained
Decided
Required
The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others.
Brian Mulroney
Great
Great Deal
Conservatives
Others
John
Over
Deal
Years
Sir
Done
If everything is very important, then nothing is important.
Brian Mulroney
Important
Nothing
Everything
Very
Then
The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.
Brian Mulroney
Partner
States
Trading
Trading Partner
West
Germany
Biggest
Japan
United
United States
Right
Here
You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.
Brian Mulroney
You
Mind
Chasing
Otherwise
Follow
Cannot
Rabbits
Public
Public Mind
You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there.
Brian Mulroney
You
Political
Spend
Noble
Political Capital
Causes
Canada
Accumulate
Afraid
Capital
Your
There are so many demands on your time, on your resources, and on the prestige of the government.
Brian Mulroney
Government
Time
Resources
Prestige
Demands
Your
Many
So that was Reagan's political problem. As a rancher in California, he was an environmentalist himself. But the President of the United States doesn't control everything that happens in Washington.
Brian Mulroney
Problem
Political
Control
President
Everything
Rancher
States
He
Environmentalist
California
Himself
Reagan
Happens
Washington
United
United States
Once you articulate an agenda, you have to follow it.
Brian Mulroney
You
Once
Follow
Articulate
Agenda
I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment.
Brian Mulroney
Will
Other
Would
Cost
Area
Price
Environment
Trade
Go
Reform
Done
Going
Move
Tax
Explain
Tax Reform
Moving
Them
Forward
First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously.
Brian Mulroney
Me
Relationship
Seriously
First
Important
Looking
Other
President
President Reagan
Enthusiastic
Area
Had
Him
Built
Reagan
Least
Up
Process
Then
Us
Persuaded
Every cabinet minister gets a mission statement from the Prime Minister.
Brian Mulroney
Every
Statement
Minister
Cabinet
Prime
Prime Minister
Mission
Gets
And, of course, the fact that Maurice Strong, a Canadian, was in charge made it important for us to pull up our socks and become leaders in this field. Now, here is a field we should be a leader in!
Brian Mulroney
Strong
Made
Leader
Important
Become
Field
Our
Charge
Fact
Leaders
Course
Up
Canadian
Us
Should
Now
Here
Socks
Pull
I don't watch a lot of TV, but I watch cartoons. And documentaries.
Britne Oldford
TV
Cartoons
Documentaries
Lot
Watch
I like to see things that take a lot of time and effort and passion. Which I feel like 'Skins' has.
Britne Oldford
Time
Passion
See
Take
Feel
Like
Lot
Effort
Which
Skins
Things
I've always loved cemeteries since I was a kid. They're very calm.
Britne Oldford
Calm
Kid
Since
Always
Very
Cemeteries
Loved
I'm into a lot of different types of music - pretty much everything from blue grass to jazz to dub step to metal to indie experimental and progressive.
Britne Oldford
Music
Jazz
Grass
Progressive
Types
Everything
Pretty
Indie
Step
Dub
Metal
Lot
Blue
Different
Experimental
Much
Different Types
The thing about Toronto is that it's so versatile. There are so many different areas in it, that look like different places, that you can set almost anything there.
Britne Oldford
You
Toronto
About
Area
Almost
Almost Anything
Like
Look
Versatile
Different
Anything
Different Areas
Places
Different Places
Many
Thing
Set
I'm getting offered roles that aren't designed for aboriginal people; they're designed for anybody. It's pretty surreal and mind-blowing.
Bronson Pelletier
People
Mind-Blowing
Pretty
Aboriginal
Surreal
Offered
Roles
Getting
Anybody
Designed
I'd go for roles that would say 'for all ethnicities,' but what they're pretty much saying is, 'We want a Caucasian guy or a black guy.' One or the other.
Bronson Pelletier
Saying
Black
Other
Say
Would
Pretty
Guy
Caucasian
Go
Roles
Want
Much
I drive a Prius. I always turn my faucets off. I never use plastic bottles anymore. I use glass bottles. I bring my own bags to the grocery store. And I try to use all natural shampoos and facial products.
Brooke D'Orsay
Natural
Try
Drive
Own
My Own
Facial
Never
Bottles
Glass
Bags
Always
Off
Store
Anymore
Turn
Grocery
Grocery Store
Use
Products
Plastic
Bring
Even if I have only 15 minutes, I knock out some toning moves or get in a burst of cardio.
Brooke D'Orsay
Out
Some
Minutes
Only
15 Minutes
Knock
Get
Moves
Burst
Even
Cardio
Toning
Sci-fi fans really have a commitment to the characters even as much as the actors do. There's a synergy between making television and who gets to watch it.
Brooke Nevin
Commitment
Fans
Synergy
Television
Characters
Between
Sci-Fi
Making
Gets
Much
Really
Who
Even
Actor
Watch
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