"David Lee Emerson", Queen's Privy Council for Canada/PC, Order of British Columbia/OBC is a Canadian politician, financial executive, and economist

Emerson is a former Member of Parliament for the electoral district (Canada)/riding of Vancouver Kingsway. He was first elected as a Liberal Party of Canada/Liberal and served as Minister of Industry (Canada)/Minister of Industry under Prime Minister of Canada/Prime Minister Paul Martin. After controversially crossing the floor to join Stephen Harper's Conservative Party of Canada/Conservatives, he served as Minister of International Trade (Canada)/Minister of International Trade and Minister for the Pacific Gateway and the Vancouver-Whistler Olympics, followed by Minister of Foreign Affairs (Canada)/Minister of Foreign Affairs.

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You can't simply kill Chapter 19 . . . and expect the rest to live on.

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We are looking for a way to describe it that is not phony and doesn't frighten people.

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I have a background from my younger days in hockey. When somebody slammed you into the boards with undue force and aggression, you took their number.

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I haven't been satisfied that the program is designed to meet the core public policy objective that I think it should be trying to meet.

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I think what's needed is a fundamental review and reshaping.

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Are we going to be stronger than the sum of our parts or are we going to be endlessly bickering among ourselves and allowing the bully to basically mop the floor with us?

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It is going to, for once, cause people . . . to really look at this coalition as protectionist, and recognize what a cancer they have become for NAFTA.

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Canada has to take a stand, ... When it comes to negotiating with the United States, power seems to win out every day, every time.

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(We'll) ensure that we do put in place a mechanism for monitoring gas and home heating fuel prices in the months ahead.

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