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All four federal party leaders have written a book in the last two years. See if you can guess who wrote what.
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“Of course when she got there and informed them of her plans – showing them a picture of me with hair halfway down to my elbows and a beard, dressed in white overalls and a white Indian tunic – they were appalled.”
- Stephen Harper
- Elizabeth May
- Tom Mulcair
- Justin Trudeau
“What would it be like to travel back to the Mutual Street Rink of 1906 and witness the Toronto Professionals taking on the Sault Ste. Marie Algonquins?”
- Stephen Harper
- Elizabeth May
- Tom Mulcair
- Justin Trudeau
“I had become unusually interested in hockey history as a youngster growing up in Toronto. As a studious and rather unathletic boy, this pastime helped to compensate for my conspicuous inability on the ice.”
- Stephen Harper
- Elizabeth May
- Tom Mulcair
- Justin Trudeau
“Sometimes, hearing my parents yelling at each other, I would escape into an Archie comic. I would dream of growing up in mythical Riverdale, where none of the parents divorced, and where my biggest problem would be choosing between Betty and Veronica.”
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- Stephen Harper
- Elizabeth May
- Tom Mulcair
- Justin Trudeau
“I am often asked what has shocked me the most since I became a member of parliament. The biggest shock to me is that MPs do not read the legislation we are debating. Maybe some of them read some of it, but I am quite sure I am the only MP who reads all of it.”
- Stephen Harper
- Elizabeth May
- Tom Mulcair
- Justin Trudeau
“Capitalism is not the problem. Human needs and the collective well-being of the country can be protected in any system. But capitalism must never be allowed to operate unfettered.”
- Stephen Harper
- Elizabeth May
- Tom Mulcair
- Justin Trudeau
“My career as a politician began in a parking lot. A grocery store parking lot, to be precise, directly across the street from a shawarma restaurant and a barbershop.”
- Stephen Harper
- Elizabeth May
- Tom Mulcair
- Justin Trudeau
“It was the dawn of a new century. The sun, it was said, never set on the British Empire, and Toronto was a burgeoning bit of the Empire’s vast Canadian dominion. Toronto liked to be called the ‘Queen City,’ which was certainly preferable to the pejorative ‘Hogtown.'”
- Stephen Harper
- Elizabeth May
- Tom Mulcair
- Justin Trudeau
“My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them.”
- Stephen Harper
- Elizabeth May
- Tom Mulcair
- Justin Trudeau
“I knew how to change a diaper, and did, many times a day – the cotton kind that you fastened with big safety pins. There were no disposables, and in any case, new parents today know all too well how expensive those are. Today cloth diapers are making a comeback, thanks to environmentally conscious young entrepreneurs whose diaper service companies offer a less expensive, more sustainable product for the benefit of today’s busy, cash-strapped parents.”
- Stephen Harper
- Elizabeth May
- Tom Mulcair
- Justin Trudeau
“My vision for that brighter future is clear: a country whose government grows the economy and creates stable, full-time jobs, while protecting the environment; where our youth get the opportunities they need and our seniors get the benefits they deserve; where democratic traditions are respected at home and our reputation as a country is respected abroad; where fear and division are replaced with shared confidence and optimism.”
- Stephen Harper
- Elizabeth May
- Tom Mulcair
- Justin Trudeau
“Our TV set, focal point of the one-room cabin, received exactly two channels – CBC and Radio-Canada. ‘He shoots! He scores!’ in two languages.”
- Stephen Harper
- Elizabeth May
- Tom Mulcair
- Justin Trudeau
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