My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.
Justin TrudeauRead
Our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of financial support for families in need.
Justin Trudeau highlights the government's commitment to directly assist those families who require financial aid through child benefits. By stating that these benefits go directly to the families who need them most, he underscores the importance of targeted support in fostering family wellbeing and ensuring that children receive the necessary resources for a healthy upbringing.
In practice
In a speech addressing economic policies, you might say, 'As Justin Trudeau noted, our child benefit goes directly to the families who need it the most.'
My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.
There is no debate about whether or not climate change is happening. We will deal with it as a challenge. But we also take it as an opportunity to invest.
The best counter to the kind of radicalization and marginalization that we've seen in other parts of the world is to create an inclusive society where everyone, including especially Muslim Canadians, have every opportunity to succeed, just like anybody else.
We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement.
I am so proud to be my mother's son.
I know and I've always felt for Canada that we recognize that diversity is a great source of strength.
A child cannot pay for its motherβs milk.
My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn't have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.
My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.
The family is the basic cell of government: it is where we are trained to believe that we are human beings or that we are chattel, it is where we are trained to see the sex and race divisions and become callous to injustice even if it is done to ourselves, to accept as biological a full system of authoritarian government.
Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a mother can't protect her child - not from pain, or horror, or the nightmare of violence, from sealed trains moving rapidly in the wrong direction, the depravity of strangers, trapdoors, abysses, fires, cars in the rain, from chance.
My mother was terribly important to me, and I know how much I yearned for her in my youth, but I don't think I truly trusted her.
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