The government will not support a nine-week work year. That I can say with certainty.

Budgets don't balance themselves, it takes fiscal discipline, and both the union and the government will have to show taxpayers that discipline.

There are two major problems that come out of COVID-19: the massive unemployment that is destroying the revenues for our programs, the paychecks for our families, and the sense of purpose for our workers. The second is the astronomical levels of household government and corporate debt.

We believe that the real child-care experts are mom and dad. That's why we brought in the universal child care benefit way back in 2006.

Politics should not be a lifelong career, and elected officials should not be allowed to fix themselves in the halls of power of a nation.

So much of the time, in politics, we try to come up with these clever turns of phrase, slogans or messages, but what the public really wants is just the simple facts.