"People are extremely frustrated, not only the anglophones, people in general. People are feeling we need to unite ourselves; we need to stop dividing ourselves, because what’s ahead of us is going to be a tough period in terms of the economy."

"I never shy away from a challenge"

"I knew it was going to be tough... But politics is about doing tough things. And about making tough changes."

"You understand what it means not to have a democracy, not being able to vote. The frustration of people saying we want justice or we want food, we want to have a future"

"I never regretted once since 2015 entering politics, because it’s about building our collective future"

"I will challenge Francois Legault on the economy. The economy will be the ballot box question. I challenge him to repeat that labour shortages are good news. I challenge him to see parents whose kids don’t have teachers and won’t have any for the next few weeks. I challenge him to visit entrepreneurs who are being forced to close their businesses because they don’t have enough staff."

"I am thinking of the cost of living; we have families who can’t make ends meet and have to decide whether to pay rent or buy food…"

"She’s a young leader, with experience, and she represents a new way of doing politics, in a new generation of politicians... What I love about Dominique is that she is very grounded — she’s able to bring together the daily realities of people and the big picture challenges of the province"

"“ China’s rapidly growing economy require s access to Africa’s resources such as energy and raw materials. I have travelled to China to places like Shanghai and Guangzhou and have seen first hard the indust r ia l a nd technological transformations taking pla ce th er e .”"

"While this can be a very challenging position, I had the advantage of being a young, female, engineer of colour, presenting cutting edge proposals for mega development projects."

"Being strategically located at the centre of the world, Dubai lies at the crossroads of surrounding regions and offers a short and convenient flight distance to destinations lying within close proximity such as India, rest of Asia, Europe and Africa."

"One year experience in Dubai’s real estate development sector or any other booming industry is equivalent to ten years experience elsewhere.https://www.hiiraan.com/news2/2011/july/nasra_agil_a_canadian_civil_engineer_rises_to_next_level.aspx"

"China’s entry into the African markets is significant and the world has taken notice. It has offered the continent a new type of trade relationship that is mutually beneficial. For example, China’s investment in Africa includes the development of infrastructure such as the construction of roads, highways, seaports, dams, power plants etc which helps stimulate regional economies. But it equally raises key questions in terms of gaining a direct foothold in exploiting Africa’s resources."

"“Even in a place like Canada, civil engineering is a tough field for women to get into. In my graduation class of eighty students, only six, including myself, were female students while the rest were male students”."

"While it is understandable that global attention on Somalia has focused on the conflict and resultant humanitarian crisis, virtually no one has been paying attention to the environmental disaster afflicting Somalia, So malia is a country prone to drought and deforestation no t forgetting th e fact that it has suffered a great deal from toxic waste disposal that has contaminated Somalia’s territorial waters and the depletion of fish stocks stemmi ng from the plunder of Somalia’s marine resources.”"

"I have received many engineering awards, but I hope I will also be remembered as an advocate for the rights of women and children."

"War effort is a man staying and working an extra hour, or two or five hours a day. It is a woman cutting short her noon hour to get back to finish the job; it is someone taking home his problems to solve them after dinner; it is someone coming back in the evening to finish an assignment. War effort is something, which is as microscopic in the unit as the individual, but as mighty in the sum total as an army."