Jordan Himelfarb: My dad used to run Canada's public service. As the Star's opinion editor, I asked him what he got wrong, how he turned left - and why he keeps needling me about my work

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

54% : Just look at how few people vote irrespective of the stakes and how many seem ready to burn it all down.Which brings us to Donald Trump.
53% : Still, in the hopes that allowing him to speak directly to our readers might buy me some quiet, I've invited him to talk about his new book, Donald Trump and a life in public service.
45% : Most or at least many public servants will have been attracted to government because of their interests in public issues, public policy.
44% : Trump seems to have an instinct for talking to people who feel that government -- that is, in your analysis, successive governments working within a broadly neoliberal framework -- failed and misled them.
35% : We're experiencing an affordability crisis, democratic decline, political polarization, climate change and so many other things to be depressed about.

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