Chrystia Freeland Quotes
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We are very proud, wherever we are in the world, to tell you about Canadian values and what we think is the right thing for Canada to do. And when it comes to refugees, we very much believe in welcoming refugees to our country, and that includes Syrian refugees, and that includes Muslim refugees.
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I do think that there is both a very powerful sense of entitlement and a kind of bubble of wealth which makes it hard for the people at the very top to understand the travails of the middle class.
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Shipping middle-class jobs to China, or hollowing them out with machines, is a win for smart managers and their shareholders. We call the result higher productivity. But, looked at through the lens of middle-class jobs, it is a loss.
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Executive pay has skyrocketed for many reasons - including the prevalence of overly cozy boards and changing cultural norms about pay - but increasing scale, competition, and innovation have all played major roles.
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Individual nations have offered their own contributions to income inequality - financial deregulation and upper-bracket tax cuts in the United States; insider privatization in Russia; rent-seeking in regulated industries in India and Mexico.
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I am a very strong supporter of our government's view that it is important to engage with all countries around the world - very much including Russia.
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Sometimes, the aftermath is more devastating than the storm. That is the story of the 2008 financial crisis. It was disastrous at the time, but what has been worse is how long it has lingered.
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The chief job of foreign policy today is helping to figure out the rules for the global economy and defending each nation's interests within it.
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It was surprising to me to hear a member question whether another member of the House was an adult. We're all adults in the House of Commons, and I think it diminishes us all to suggest otherwise.
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My respect for politicians has increased. It's hard work - even hard physical work.
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We recognize that NAFTA is a three-country agreement, and we need a three-country negotiation.
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When Canada works to counter extremism and terrorism, particularly in the Middle East, Israel is always a natural partner and a close ally.
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The challenge of weaning ourselves off fossil fuel even as it becomes more abundant will make the old fights about energy conservation seem like child's play.
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I think of myself as a Russophile. I speak the language and studied the nation's literature and history in college.
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Living as we do in the age of Facebook, we shouldn't be surprised that some countries are starting to imagine themselves more as social networks than as a physical place.
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Western investment is usually assumed to walk hand-in-hand with the democratic values of its home countries, and indeed, opening an economy to outside money is one of the textbook steps in a shift from authoritarianism to an open society.
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Changes which are slow and gradual can be hard to notice even if their ultimate impact is quite dramatic.
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We are all living in a world shaped by Reagan and his ideology of small 'l' liberalism.
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I have always liked hanging out with people and talking to people.
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In a globalized economy, jobs no longer need a passport, but workers do.
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Plutocrats worldwide have readily understood the advantages of evading the burdens of the nation-state.
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Our battle over the size of the state overlooks a problem that is just as important and that may be easier to muster the collective will to resolve: how effective government is, regardless of its scale.
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Income inequality is one thing, but a permanent division into the haves and have-nots is an entirely different thing - and much less acceptable.
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Sometimes who is going to be taking care of all of my kids on any given day is more complicated than any trade agreement.