 The world has changed profoundly since our programs were first established. |
| I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation. |
| I'd be prouder still to say I was Canada's 10th woman prime minister. |
| For too many, to work means having less income. |
| Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families. |
| For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation. |
