This quote by Stephen Harper is a cautioning to the people of Ottawa that the government has the power to both exchange away. It is a suggestion that the government has the authority to make choices that can affect the lives of its people. It is a suggestion that the government has the power to make choices that can be useful or destructive to its citizens. It is likewise a reminder that the government has the power to change its policies and decisions at any time. This quote is a pointer that the federal government has the power to both give and take away, which citizens need to know this power and be gotten ready for any modifications that may come. It is a reminder that residents should be aware of the government's power and be gotten ready for any modifications that might come.
"I guess my natural inclination is to finish what I started. We have a Conservative government in Nova Scotia. What I want to see is a Conservative government in Ottawa"
"On the way from Chicago, I spent the summer of 1947 in Ottawa, helping to build the first of a series of econometric models for the Canadian government"
"When I appointed the Minister of the Environment to major cabinet status, the Planning and Priorities committee, the signals that that sent through Ottawa were major, because that's what the bureaucracy understands"
"What Ottawa and Washington used to think about Turkey or Iran was not very important because we really didn't think much about either, but now what we think about them is extremely important - to ourselves and to many other peoples"
