John Frederick Hamm OC (born April 8, 1938) is a Canadian physician and politician, who served as the 25th premier of Nova Scotia from 1999 to 2006. (wikipedia)
Had I not been sensitive to the perceived conflict, I would have been far more aggressive in promoting the file.
In one declaration prior to the last election, the prime minister named a figure of $8 billion,
We don't need three years to prove the obvious. Canadians believe this is the next step and I believe the summit will convince the federal government that this should happen quickly.
That was the way it was presented to me and to my (police) chief,
We kept our shoulder to the wheel and our eye on the ball. And to the best of our abilities, we kept mostly to our promises, kept mostly to our time lines and almost always to our dollar commitments,
While I'm comfortable in my job today, and maybe I would be tomorrow, looking four or five years ahead, I began to say to myself, 'I have to be realistic. It's time for fresh leadership'.
I've done a lot of thinking, and as I said earlier: it's time,
We really didn't have the presence in Ottawa we should have. That kind of base would have made the job easier, and perhaps we would have been able to do it more effectively.
As premier, I am proud of our record,
He mentioned the file to me and I said minister on this file I can't tell you what to do. Do what you think is right.
