Garneau: Serving as an opposition critic trains members for cabinet roles
Marc Garneau · #20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation · Jul 2, 2017 · at 13:46
Marc Garneau, Canadian Minister of Transport and former astronaut, explains to Shane Parrish how his seven years in opposition holding various critic portfolios prepared him for cabinet governance.
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“I think it does. I would say that I was critic for science and technology, for industry foreign affairs at one time, short time natural resources, so I had to learn about those things. In order to be able to ask intelligent questions make intelligent speeches, and find whether or not there was reason to criticize the government. So, yes it is a valuable experience being a critic, and because you are the person who is officially supposed to take care of a particular file.”
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