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
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.
Interpretation
Climate change is an unavoidable challenge that can also be seen as an opportunity for investment and growth.
In this quote, Justin Trudeau emphasizes that climate change is an undeniable reality that requires our attention and action. Rather than viewing it solely as a challenge or a crisis, he suggests that we should also see it as an opportunity to invest in solutions that can lead to innovation, economic growth, and a sustainable future.
In practice
In a speech on environmental policy, one might say, 'As Justin Trudeau noted, climate change is a challenge, but it also presents us with significant opportunities for sustainable investment.'
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.
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.
Anytime I meet people who got to make the deliberate choice, whose parents chose Canada, I'm jealous. Because I think being able to choose it, rather than being Canadian by default, is an amazing statement of attachment to Canada.
You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen.
The most important factor in survival is neither intelligence nor strength but adaptability.
I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.
But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.
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