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Liberalism is the philosophy for our time, because it does not try to conserve every tradition of the past, because it does not apply to new problems the old doctrinaire solutions, because it is prepared to experiment and innovate and because it knows that the past is less important than the future.

— Pierre Trudeau

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Of course a bilingual state is more expensive than a unilingual one — but it is a richer state.

If Canada is to survive, it can only survive in mutual respect and in love for one another.

I believe a constitution can permit the co-existence of several cultures and ethnic groups with a single state.

Prime Ministers (2000)

I must say that "Give Peace a Chance" has always seemed to me to be sensible advice.

Memoirs (1993)

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