JAGMEET SINGH

I don't have a firm line on balanced budgets.

The higher the stakes, the more responsible we have to be. It was with this in mind that I began to build my Green Economy and Climate Agenda.

In the Sikh tradition there is no prohibition of showing your hair. It's not that hair cannot be seen. It's an identity, as opposed to having to cover your hair.

I feel like this idea of strategic voting has not allowed people to dream big.

If the concern is security, there needs to be evidence-backed policies to increase security and safety, while maintaining our liberties and freedoms. Policies that clamp down on freedoms and don't increase security empirically need to be outright rejected.

There are a lot of people who can't find housing, who worry about the future, and that insecurity and precarity in their own lives is being exploited by some politicians who are using it to divide us by saying, 'hey it's the fault of new Canadians, it's the fault of refugees, it's the fault of Muslims.'

I have experienced things that I think many Canadians have gone through - the feeling of not belonging, the feeling of being a victim, of being hurt, being marginalized.

I am proud of the work that I have done in the Sikh community and across Canada.

The same way I'm not afraid of calling out systemic discrimination, I'm also not afraid of calling out inequality and the fact that inequality is growing in society and that affects everybody, regardless of race.

My parents were loving, caring, generous and thoughtful.

Oh, I think Canadians look like all sorts of people. That's the beauty of Canada.

Like many others who stand out, I was picked on.

Canadians are known for having a social conscience, and so our political leaders need to do more to uphold that reputation on the international stage.

That's the thing about abuse - it can make the victim feel an overwhelming sense of shame, a shame so disabling that one suffers in silence.

What do we believe in? Love and courage.

Fighting for human rights, a commitment to social justice and treating people with dignity are all things that are important to us as Canadians.

I believe that if we are able to, obviously we need to ensure that we have a robust budget that's balanced, but there's no way I would ever accept austerity.

I don't work for the rich and powerful. I work for people!

A beard and a turban sometimes conjure up negative associations, but if you see someone with a lime-colored, bright orange or pink turban, it disarms people's stereotyped notion of this image.

When projects like a pipeline are imposed on a province without a buy-in, without a collaborate approach, they just don't go ahead. What happens is they get caught up in court, there's court challenges, the project doesn't proceed.

My dad struggled younger in his life and eventually had become very well settled and bought a nice car for himself. And every now and then I'd take it for a spin and, almost without fail, if I took his car I'd get pulled over.

There is no excuse for inaction in the face of economic injustice.

I believe that the federal government has significant constitutional powers, but I don't think it's effective to impose pipelines on communities.

To me poverty, mental health, and addictions don't sound like criminal justice problems. They sound to me like a social justice problem.

We don't want to be intimidated by hate, we don't want hatred to ruin a positive event.