Chrystia Freeland

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. ”

I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values. ”

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea. ”

Defending human rights should be an important objective of foreign policy, and that, too, will sometimes be hard to reconcile with an economic agenda, especially when it comes to dealing with rich but repressive players like China and Russia. ”

A thing that really troubles me about a more polarized society is that you stop having a sense of society and citizenship. ”

If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians. ”

The main point of democracy is to deliver positive results for the majority. ”

The economic reality is that, thanks to smart machines and global trade, the well-paying, middle-class jobs that were the backbone of Western democracies are vanishing. ”

This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice. ”

I cut my teeth as a journalist writing about societies that didn't have democracy. ”