“When people are in a difficult situation, that is not the time to lay out the twenty-year vision for the community”

“Food banks . . . across the country, are experiencing demands that outstrip their capacity”

“Artists have a lot to teach us about failure”

“Twenty-five percent of low-income Canadians under the age of sixty-five rely on a ‘working-poor’ individual to be the breadwinner”

“No city has ever successfully solved traffic congestion by building more roads and lanes”

“Fifty-two percent of the world’s wildlife has disappeared since the 1970s . . . and it’s because of human activity”

“We don’t need bigger governments and bureaucracies; we need bigger citizens playing a larger role”

“People are generally pretty good at retrospective exercises. We are less gifted when it comes to being anticipatory”

“We need . . . to bring out the resilience in First Nations children so they can compete in the world”