On Donald Trump’s campaign:

“You didn’t see me tweeting throughout that entire U.S. campaign, and some people were. And there were moments that I would have loved to express perspective. But I didn’t, because Ontario is going to have to deal with whoever is in the U.S. administration. I think Prime Minister Trudeau took the same approach.”

On Trump’s threat to rip up NAFTA:

“Predicting what Donald Trump is going to do is beyond anyone’s calculations. Some of his positions shift. But if he’s true to what he said, that’s certainly going to be a dynamic at play for Canada, not just Ontario. We’ve benefitted historically from trade liberalization. If he’s going to tear up NAFTA, that would be a problem for Canada.”

On hydro rates and Ontario’s green energy contracts:

“We’ve signed a lot of bad contracts for surplus electricity, and we have to look at ways to minimize that surplus. I don’t want to do anything that would cause legal exposure to the taxpayer. We have to be prudent how we go about this. Where ‘notice to proceed’ hasn’t gone out, you can get out of an obligation with minimal legal exposure … It depends what’s available, and what tools are available. What I’m saying is, I’m committing to getting rid of the surplus where there is a legal route to do so.”

On whether Catholic hospitals should be able to opt out of assisted death:

“I would like to look into that a little further … I’m comfortable with physician conscience rights. I’d have to look a little bit harder at public institutions, because institutions are receiving public funds. Believe it or not, this is the first time I’ve been asked this question, in that it’s been a bit more of a federal debate. But there are some obligations that come with public funding.”

On whether anti-sex-ed groups may try to take over PC nominations before the 2018 election:

“I’m not overly concerned. We have an intense vetting process where the candidates have to go through an interview, they have to expose everything in their past. We’ve even enhanced that vetting process now. I think that the candidates who will be nominated will support the direction I’m taking the party, and I don’t see any worries of outside interests trying to subvert that.”