Big companies are often in the process of laying off workers. Small startup companies are the ones that are hiring. The statistics prove that's where job growth is going to occur.

And innovation and entrepreneurship is the opportunity and best opportunity we have to grow the economy.

My goal is not to create a circumstance in which no one fails, but one in which many will succeed.

I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.

I was part of Environment Canada's work to stop acid rain, create national parks, clean up the Great Lakes, develop new environmental legislation and negotiate the treaty that saved the ozone layer.

It should be noted that the EPA's banning of methanol is categorically absurd from the point of view of environmental protection.

Prime Minister Cameron says he wants to be the greenest government ever, but the definition of green is immature... I don't deny for a moment that CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but there are so many other factors that affect climate. It is more complicated than the computer models that we are using. What the truth is, nobody knows.

We copied laws and regulations from western countries, but enforcement remains weak, and environmental litigation is still quite near impossible.