That is the condition precedent to improvements in health care, or environmental quality, or a real change in the situation of the growing ranks of the under-privileged in Canada. I work in the profession of politics, which is also changing profoundly and, generally, much less successfully than business. That is, if I may so, because political leaders deal in an even more complex world than business leaders do. To take the simplest example, when a war break out, or an epidemic of disease, political and business leaders both have to take account of its impact. But political leaders are also expected to stop the war, stop the disease, protect the public interest.
Political leaders have to take account of a much broader array of feelings and factors.
And we don't do that nearly as well as we need to. In the last federal election in Canada, voter turnout fell to its lowest level in history. It would be more comforting if that could be attributed simply to the quality of the party leaders. But it was not a judgment on personalities. It was a judgment on a process.