Canada stands out as making a sensible and positive contribution to the world. I'm saying that maybe because of its inclination toward multilateralism. Support for the environmental protection cause. It's relationship between people and nature.

I'm very much a believer that it's action that matters much more so than, you know, the flurry of political promises and statements and slogans that are used during political campaigns.

Diversity in and of itself is a strong positive.

I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists, you have definitely fewer women in that field.

It so happens that because all the economies are strongly inter-connected and aggregated, there is trade that is happening not just from China to the rest of the world, but from the rest of the world to China as well, and that is going to continue.

Consumption has massively benefited from globalization.

When my father passed away and then when later on I gave birth, those are sort of ground-breaking experiences that put everything else into perspective.