Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 December 2014

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Context Phase

2:55 am

Mr. Rob Wright:

Well, I think that is the dilemma of modern politics. I do not see us being beyond that in Canada.

I should not digress, but I digress a little bit. When I was a student, economics was proudly the dismal science. Political science was not even a science; it was kind of modern history of political processes, but political science is now a science and it has been led by activities in the US and Canadian politicians. It is very easy to say, "What do people want? I'm going to give more of it than my competitors here in this vote." It is much harder to say, "Let's look forward. What do you need going forward? Here is my advice on how to lead your way through with some sacrifice for greater benefit." That is full of risk in the modern political science. The short answer is that one is going to have to get over this and get into a new world of it.

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