June 18, 2025

Generosity is part of my character, and I therefore hasten to assure this government that I will never make an allegation of dishonesty against it

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Kim Campbell, the first female prime minister of Canada, was right when she said a 47-day-long election campaign (Imagine a campaign of only 47 days!) was not enough time to reconsider the nation’s social programs. But she was wrong to say so.