"If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it."
"I mean if there are going to be missiles that are going off and there are going to be going off over Canadian airspace whether we want it or not, no I don't think that is acceptable. I think that we want to be at the table."
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Source: CTV Question Period, April 27, 2003.
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