Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Erin O'Toole - Page 2

Helping parents to meet the everyday costs of raising their families, helping them lift themselves up to create a better life for their children and keeping them safe is what motivated me to get into public life, and it continues to drive me every day.

After 12 years as an Air Force officer, I turned in my wings for a notebook, earned a law degree and went to work for Proctor & Gamble.

It is time for free nations to stop ignoring or even normalizing tyranny. Not only is it the right thing to do - but it's also the only way to stand up for our national security and the safety of the Canadian people.

Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand have stood together in the long struggle for freedom for decades. We have a responsibility to the people of Hong Kong to support them as they struggle to maintain the freedom that was guaranteed to them by Beijing in 1984.

By the 1970s, Western sanctions had hollowed out the Soviet economy. Ultimately, however, what brought down the Soviets was their inability to repair the catastrophic damage that began with the meeting of Igor Gouzenko and the RCMP.

Keeping young people out of community work sponsored by faith groups means an entire generation won't be as well-equipped to think and believe for themselves.

The country I most admire is Canada, the one I've served my whole life.

Canada has been conspicuously silent as other countries criticize the actions of Beijing and the World Health Organization in the response to COVID-19. In return for remaining silent, China calls us a 'fine partner' and reminds Canada that we are in line for medical supplies provided we have our cash ready when the planes arrive.

We cannot allow our diplomatic relationship with China to lead to any discrimination against Canadians.

I have been asking for Canada to take cybersecurity and other issues seriously and ensure that Huawei is not allowed to contribute to our 5G infrastructure.

You can't build a strong future for millennials or young people just based on social media. If so, they'd be all secure with Mr. Trudeau, who is very good at social media.

Trudeau's obsession with China should not come as a surprise. For decades, many Canadian corporate and financial insiders were espousing deeper and closer ties with China at all costs.

The history books will remember the Chinese doctors who sounded the alarm about COVID-19.

We must be sure that Canadians realize that our political differences with the Communist government in China has nothing to do with the country of China, or its people. The millions of Canadians with Chinese ancestry are not connected to our diplomatic differences with Beijing.

I'm here to fight for the well-being of Canadians across the country.

Raising a family is life's greatest joy, but it can also be humbling. You cannot do it alone.

Canadians deserve to know the difference between Mr. Trudeau and myself.

The struggle for freedom and human rights is universal and Canada used to be a leader.

China's propaganda approach with the West is different than the one used by the Soviet Union, which used Western belligerence to maintain its control over its domestic audience. China's strategy is one of influence and inertia.

Beijing has a history of ignoring the rules. It takes pride in it.

Canada has, entrenched in our Constitution, a world-leading recognition of Indigenous rights.

In a democratic society, nothing will ever receive unanimous support. The way to deal with this is to empower elected governments and ensure that they answer to voters, not to give a veto to those who are the loudest or most willing to protest or break the law.

Greenhouse gas production, water usage and environmental issues more broadly are being mitigated by Canadian technological advances more and more each year.

A Conservative government under Andrew Scheer would implement a coherent China strategy, taking a harder line on China's missteps.

I'm not afraid to fight for things I believe in, and I'm not afraid to respect people that have another point of view.

The Five Eyes nations have a duty to support Hong Kong and its status as guaranteed by the 1984 agreement.

Canadians haven't always seen themselves in our party.

We need a principled foreign policy that consistently and resolutely stands up for freedom.

Communist party leadership in China knows that Canada's political and media elite values feeling superior to the United States more than they value standing on principle on the international stage.

We will trade freely with free nations and not spend our time chasing trade deals with predatory countries like communist China.

We are made stronger by differences of opinion on faith and conscience.

Sometimes freedom demands a measure of sacrifice.

On trade, a Conservative government would challenge China's actions on canola and meat imports through the World Trade Organization and withdraw funding from the Chinese-run Asia Infrastructure Investment Bank.

The federal government needs to make it clear that recognition of Indigenous rights means that when Indigenous bands and their leadership approve projects, we listen.

Since 1979, the majority of victims of the Iranian regime have been the Iranian people themselves.

Canadians must realize that the success of our resource sector benefits all Canadians.

Whereas Canada and our allies see the rule of law, freedom of speech, and fair elections as the guardrails to a more secure world, Beijing sees them as a threat to the rule of the Communist Party.

I'm proud of my country.

Every time we refuse to stand up for liberty and our core beliefs as a nation in the face of aggression from the Chinese regime, we legitimize their behaviour and encourage more bully tactics.

While Justin Trudeau uses the slogan, 'Diversity is our strength,' he has demonstrated time and again that he does not extend that diversity to thought or conscience.