2012 10 04 Justin Trudeau Mississauga

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Thank you all for being here .
You know I see a lot of lot of young people in this room a lot of people have my generation home and I was.
Talking about this earlier was same arm.
Up until this point in his life he really had.
A bigger than aversion to politics like so many young people was more about an allergy perhaps another jerk reaction to politics.
But I'm running to be leader because I think we need the our young people to come back in in getting gauged in.
I know we can inspire a group of young canadians to start to have fate.
In public life in public service I wanted to convince them that citizenship is not a spectator sport.
Something that's me that our generation.
Young Canadians just don't really care that much but there's no point in trying that they don't vote because they just don't see the point that they can change things all those people.
Are exactly the people rooms like this are gonna prove wrong the because you see.
This conservative government is taking our country in a direction.
That I'm pretty sure we don't want it to go.
All I hear across the country is that people want something better people feel they need something better they want to be called on to step up.
And create something better and that's what we can do that's what we are going to do by bringing people in from the sidelines.
And make sure that liberals make it happen so I tell you tonight.
We're working for is to install Canadians.
Young and old here over there wherever here wherever there maybe.
With a sense of purpose with the sense of connecting.
With this country that we love so much if we work hard we can make the Liberal Party their party a party that will channel their energies their ideas and their hopes into a better Canada.
Know what will happen overnight the road.
Will be a long Canadian highway need your help.
And tonight I'm here to ask you for it are you guys read a the I'm.
I'm glad to hear that because that was the easy part the hard work is just beginning now the media has shown a certain passing interest in my candidacy over the past few days but soon.
They will move on lights will dim.
The cameras will disappear it will be with us.
In small towns after the Sun sets at four o'clock in a January afternoon.
They will be there when small group of citizens.
Gather in community centers in good wires.
In church basements in kitchens all across the country because that's what it's gonna take and.
I can't wait the.
We need to understand that that's the hard work that it's gonna take to regain the trust to relaunch a conversation about who we are.
Where we want to go that's what i'm looking forward to to meeting with Canadians across the country to connecting to listening to learning and mostly.
To working very very hard because we can't forget that despite all the excitement in the last few days.
We have a mountain of work ahead of us Canadians are fair honest and evil decent people they will give the Liberal Party a chance.
If we earn it in the last few days.
They give me hope i'm hopeful because my campaign has been positively received.
Most of all i'm hopeful because I'm pretty sure.
I know why it's been positively received.
Its not about.
Me it may seem.
Certainly the outset that something to do with me my name's on a few the t-shirts but.
Ultimately Canadians are listening.
Because they're not satisfied with the government they have they want something better and they are hopeful that they might have found.
The.
With me.
If we're going to be ins want in need we're going to have to work hard day after day week after week month after month to prove to Canadians that we can be that something better that we are.
With them in their fights in their hopes.
And in their dreams hard honest work.
Is what's required always has been.
Canada success didn't happen by accident.
And it won't continue without effort this.
Magnificent unlikely country was founded on a bold new premise the people from different believes in back rooms from all corners of the world could come together.
To build a better life for themselves and for their children.
Than the ever could have on their own this.
New idea this new idea that diversity.
Is drink that a challenge to be overcome.
Or a difficulty to be tolerated not.
Is the heart and soul at the Canadian success story that and the old-fashioned idea of progress.
The idea that we owe a duty to Canadians who come after us to work our to bill the country that offers them.
Even more than we had more opportunity more choices more success just as our parents and grandparents did for us these are the values that define and unite us.
Their thriving here in Mississauga.
This city might just be the most diverse community on.
Earn the even beyond bathroom it is buzzing it is buzzing with energy is but the thing with enthusiasm.
In growth just take a moment to look around you look at this room.
Your friends your neighbors your fellow Canadians.
This is at the very heart the Canadian 21st century and.
Now as extraordinary is extraordinary is this room is there are a lot more like it right across the country Jill assumes the walk back to you cepeda began on them you can a demo demo today and they please this imbalance oakley's own.
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The Canadian the bus but see valor soda pop he did but CB and so no on developed an idea dunno it also month Dekker per CDI likely Canada you see public and.
Be allocated an adult seized Canada.
Get the lead back to be in level in the cats gonna catch another liberal suggesting that Liberal Party created Canada created the Liberal Party Canadians created the Liberal Party.
That great growing optimistic middle class and the last century.
Came together in created a big-hearted.
Broad-minded consensus built a better country.
For themselves yes but for their neighbors.
And for their kids was Canadians who billed Medicare it with Canadians who built in open and dynamic economy Canadians welcomed.
Newcomers from around the world into their homes in the communities.
Into their businesses Canadian developed an independent foreign policy.
And when necessary bled for our values.
In faraway lands Canadians brother constitutional Canadians in.
And with that.
Canadians demanded their inalienable rights and freedoms be placed above the region politics and Canadians Canadians balance-the-budget the Liberal Party.
Was the party of choice yeah but it was the platform.
For their aspirations not the source.
Other dreams if there is a lesson to be learned from our party's past.
It's not where we landed in terms and policies.
But instead how we got there how we created those policies we were in touch connected to here in the GTA and across the country their dreams were our dream their values our and their fights our funds so let us learn from the past but let's focus on the future but leading a movement of Canadians who seek to build not rebuild.
Who seek to create not recreate after all living in a very different world.
Twenty years ago I was a the first graduating class in my university to get email I was the last generation a pre Google high school teachers and my kids.
My kids will never know that there was a world before blackberries iPad.
Androids and the next thing to come out next year we know what Canadians want.
We know they want today they want good jobs.
They want a dynamic and growing economy that allows is to educate our kids as they grow and care for parents as they age we won a compassionate society the pulls together to help the vulnerable and use the less fortunate.
A chance at success we know that Canada is the released country on earth.
Because we trust each other so is it too much to ask to have a government.
That looks a Canadians with respect not suspicion a government that celebrates the Charter of Rights and Freedoms the government that celebrates your choices.
Your values and your liberty in now looking around the room like this one might be tempted to say that young people.
Are our future I believe there in Ascension.
Element about president we need to empower.
Young Canadian through world-class education do with some relevant work experience is into opportunity just server this great country and this great plant.
Their voices their choices matter deeply there already are leaders today.
Letter from the young people in here.
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Canoes ROTC these are please old level because one in vietnam he sees the.
The six economic did to please you know he did he means that he he.
He put the plug on to TV show who you really did not cause any DVD on political bias we need to learn what we have forgotten.
That the key to grow to opportunity to progress is not found in one sector the economy.
Or another it is found right across.
In a thriving energetic entrepreneurial middle-class people with good job families were able to hold modern life talent thriving middle class provides realistic hope in a ladder of opportunity for the less fortunate.
A robust market for businesses and a sense of common interest for all.
The great economic success stories a recent past a really stories a middle-class girl.
China India South Korea and Brazil to name a few.
Are growing rapidly because they have added hundreds of millions of people.
To the global middle class but the news on that front is not so good here at home I don't need to tell you that you like our fellow Canadians all over the country.
Live it day by day Canadian families have seen their incomes stagnate.
The costs go up and their debts explode over the past 30 years into many parts the GTA housing costs to put home ownership out every chip much of the middle class with the response to the NDP.
The sole regional resentment blame the successful.
The Conservatives incident privilege one sector overall others a promise that the wealth will trickle down.
Eventually both.
Are tidy ideological answers to complex and difficult questions the only thing they have in common that they're both equally ROM the weenie to get it right we need to open your mind to new solutions to listen to Canadians and to trust them and as we face these challenges.
The only ideology that must guide us is.
Evidence hard scientific backs and datum.
Know it's almost ridiculous to be happy having to say this but it also seems revolutionary in today's on 01.
That instead of inventing the facts.
To justify the policies we should create policy.
Based on facts.
Now the solutions will come from the lapd.
The solutions will come from the right the only thing that matters.
Is that the work that they help us live and drive.
True to our values because middle-class growth.
Is more than just an economic imperative the key to canadian unity.
Is a shared sense of purpose so hard to define.
But so deeply felt the sense we're all in this together the one Ontarians do well it creates opportunities for Newfoundlanders.
The Winco backers create and innovate secret echoes across the country and around the world the whether you're insane on a fast or Saint John's.
Mississauga or serving we have common struggles.
And common dreams it is the middle class.
Not the political class that unites this country it is the middle class that makes this country great.
Now on on Tuesday night in Montreal.
To my fellow quebecers I recognize that there are some to backers.
Who want to build their own country a country that reflects their values the protector language.
And culture and respects our identity well.
I want to build the country to a country worthy of my kids dreams %uh our dreams attackers dreams but for me.
That country's that stretches from the Atlantic.
To the Pacific home with my to the High Arctic.
Should google it back to being a little yen.
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The more you battle again leaky pic work we'll keep you it but since her death and you can add up.
Now my candidacy has been the source of some speculation over the past few months.
It seems that every pundit in every expert has already got me completely figured out well I've got news for the mall this campaign isn't about me it's about.
Us I said to liberals after the last election.
We need to get past this idea that simple leadership change could solve our problems I believe that more than ever my candidacy may shine a few extra lights on.
May put the few extra seats people in the bleachers to watch what we do with that opportunity is up to us.
All of us when Canadians to noon we have to prove to them that we liberals have learned from the past.
Yes but that we are 100 percent focused on the future and not the future the Liberal Party the future of this country I am running because I believe this country once.
Needs a new leadership a vision for Canada's future grounded not on the politics the.
In the or mistrust one that understands.
Despite all the blessings beneath our feet that our greatest blessings.
Are above ground in our people all Canadians pulling together determined to build a better life a better can.
Now to millions upon millions of Canadians the federal government has become irrelevant remote from their daily lives not to mention their hopes and dreams to them.
Otherwise just a place where people play politics as if it were a game.
Open to a select few and actually interesting to even less.
They do not see themselves or their values.
Reflected in Ottawa my friends we will do better.
Now this.
This is not a personal indictment.
Mister harper or mister more care on the contrary.
We must owner their commitment and their service.
But we must also agree that they are both dead wrong.
About the direction we want to take a stand and I'm here to tell you.
That together we can prove it there'll be many highs in a few lows between now in April and if we are successful there will be many more between now in 2015 so I do not present myself.
As a man who claims to have all the answers in fact I think we can all agree that we've had quite enough.
Have those types of politics but I do know.
When I have a strong sense of this country.
Where we've been where we are where we want to go.
And I believe I can bring new forces to bear.
On all problems I can convince a new generation of Canadians that their country needs them that values the energy their ingenuity their vision together.
We can all convince young Canadians that serving this great country.
Is its own reward.
No I promise you this: if you entrust me.
With the privilege of leadership I will work long.
Hard and tirelessly I learned first hand from the people obliterates.
Say Michelle & Park extension that there are no shortcuts no easy ways to learn trust earn trust and support.
You have to work at it day in in day out.
Because that's what it's going to take. and thats no less than Canadians deserve.
My friend.
My friends we live in a blessed country we're the most diverse people on earth.
Yet we are peaceful we're tough but we are compassionate we are confident.
But we work hard to earn we have resources.
There are the envy of the world so let us pledge to one another to match those resources with resourcefulness.
Let us rededicate ourselves to the glorious.
Improbable work in progress that is Canada.
And to serve its people through the only party willing to speak to.
And for all Canadians the level morning hi Mills people her.


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