Quote #3

Trudeau: Well there are a lot of bleeding hearts around who just don't like to see people with helmets and guns. All I can say is, go on and bleed. But it's more important to keep law and order in the society than to be worried about weak-kneed people who don't like the looks of a soldier- CBC reporter Tim Ralfe (interrupting): At any cost? How far would you go with that? How far would you extend that? Trudeau: Well, just watch me.

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  3. We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.
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  8. Fuck off.

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