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Prepared for a future that is passed.

Publication: Canadian Speeches
Publication Date: 01-MAY-03 		Format: Online - approximately 892 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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We are well equipped for an age that has passed. But Canada is seen as an incubator of change, better prepared than most for a future that has already arrived. A ward acceptance speech at the Public Policy Forum 16th annual testimonial dinner, Toronto, April 10, 2003.

In the last little while, we've been going through a period of high anxiety. We've been forcefully reminded that the world is a dangerous place, and the dangers are not safely contained for other people to cope with in places far away from us.

Some of the sources of anxiety are obvious and very current, but I believe that some of the underlying low level anxiety comes from sensing that we are in a time of significant transformation, and from not being certain whether and...

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