Dalton McGuinty Quotes

• So I am, in fact, very optimistic about the future of my federal party.

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• The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.

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• There is kind of a typical experience as a premier. You go in, you win a couple, you get out. Go serve on boards, take your head out of the political ringer and take on a much more private life.

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• There’s no wrong time to make the right decision.

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• When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.

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• There’s the job and then there’s my family. There’s very little time beyond that for friends.

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• Your kids are going to do well in the workplace of the future if they can bring creativity, if they can bring some innovation, if they can bring some entrepreneurialism.

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• I would also argue… that we are, by inclination and in terms of our history, we are small ‘l’ liberals, we Canadians.

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• It has been an incredible honour and privilege to serve Ontarians as their premier.

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• I’ve tried to lead a progressive, activist government.

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• My challenge is to convince Ontarians that the old world is not coming back.

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• Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children.

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• Even if you didn’t lose your job, if you’re one of the two-thirds of Ontarians who don’t have a pension, you lost savings. Even if you’ve earned most of that back now, you are a changed person. You are less secure, less confident. And I understand that.

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• I am going to put money into education at the expense of other programs.

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• I made a commitment… both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.

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Dalton McGuinty (15)

Birth:	19th July, 1955
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Lawyer, Politician

About

Dalton James Patrick McGuinty, Jr. was born in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He is a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 24th Premier of Ontario from 2003 to 2013. He became the first Liberal leader to win two majority governments since Mitchell Hepburn nearly 70 years earlier. In 2011, he became the first Liberal premier to secure a third consecutive term since Oliver Mowat, after his party was re-elected in that year's provincial election. He studied biology and earned a B.Sc. from McMaster University. He then earned his LL.B from the University of Ottawa before practising law in Ottawa.

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