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“ When I was a kid in junior high, I had an assignment to discuss how to rescue poor people in India. I remember my teacher at the time considered it an impossible problem. Now, we're not talking that way anymore. We're sure not talking about that for China. They're rescuing themselves thanks to globalization. ”

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Americans were happy to celebrate their super-rich and, at least sometimes, worry about their poor. But putting those two conversations together and talking about economic inequality was pretty much taboo.

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Chrystia Freeland Economics Inequality

I see social mobility and equality of opportunity as really successful Canadian values.

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Chrystia Freeland Opportunity Successful

Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.

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It's public knowledge that there have been efforts - as U.S. intelligence sources have said - by Russia to destabilize the U.S. political system. I think that Canadians and, indeed, other Western countries should be prepared for similar efforts to be directed at us.

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