A global world needs global firewalls.

Countries like Canada, Korea, China, Germany can and should use fiscal space. Some of them are doing it, not all.

There are goods that are outside trade and in the public domain and that should be reserved and protected.

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.

We draw many benefits from globalization that people take for granted. Poverty has been reduced massively around the world. If you look at the Chinese numbers, it is quite mind-boggling: 700 million people taken out of poverty in a matter of 40 years, the poverty rate having moved from over 30 per cent from hardly six per cent now. That would not have happened if there had not been globalization.

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.

If climate change issues are not adequately addressed—if we keep running those nice energy subsidies, if the price on carbon is not adequately set, if policymakers don’t have it on their radar screens—then financial stability in the medium and long-term is clearly at stake.