You have to fight for greater space on the national agenda and you have to fight for greater resources for new Canadians, because I think that new Canadians are cluing into the fact that the speeches that Canada's political class deliver at many of their functions and events are actually not realized in true terms when it comes to budgetary items and when it comes to priority-setting issues in our country.
On February 10th, 2009. See this statement in context.