Transcript
Transcript: Insights on Trust
[00:00:00 Text on screen: Insights on Trust.]
[00:00:10 Text on screen: Janice Stein, Founding Director, Munk School | Global Affairs Expert | University of Toronto Professor.]
Janice Stein: The most corrosive thing, all of a sudden, you didn't trust what the most senior officials in the government said, and Canadians, as always, were riveted to their televisions. We've always had this very porous boundary between Canada and the United States, and we begin to lose faith in the honesty and in the integrity of our leaders. That is corrosive of democracy.
[00:00:37 Text on screen: "What has changed is that the environment within which public senior executives must do their job is much more fractured and polarized."
Richard Dicerni
In the Public Interest: My Life in Public Service, p. 13]
[00:00:47 Text on screen: Munir Sheikh, Former Chief Statistician of Canada.]
Munir Sheikh: In 2010, this big event happened in my life when I went to work as the Chief Statistician of Canada and totally unexpectedly, I came home unemployed. When the government is not willing to take ownership of a bad decision and places the blame on a public servant, that is when you have to make a decision whether it's worth your while to keep doing what you're doing.
[00:01:19 Text on screen: "Stewardship of public funds is a cornerstone of trust in our democratic institutions. […] A government must apply stewardship principles or eventually risk losing its operating latitude as finances become unsustainable."
Canada's Federal Spending Reviews
50 Years of Facts, Figures, and Lessons, p. 4]
[00:01:35 Text on screen: Nik Nanos, Pollster | Author | Founder, Nanos Research | Chancellor, Carleton University]
Nik Nanos: Whatever comes back, if you have a scientific survey that is done properly, regardless of what your personal views might be and regardless of what your intuition might be, focus on the numbers and stick to it.
[00:01:48 Text on screen: "Trust is a currency that cannot be purchased or transferred. It has to be earned every day, every week, every month… It is earned by giving good advice, by being transparent, by being respectful of respective accountabilities, and by solving problems cooperatively."
Richard Dicerni
In the Public Interest: My Life in Public Service, p. 13]
[00:02:02 Text on screen: Yoshua Bengio, Artificial intelligence researcher | Professor (Université de Montréal) | Co-president (LoiZéro) | Founder (Mila)]
Yoshua Bengio: First of all, to make good decisions, you have to understand what is happening, you have to understand what is probably coming. So, collectively, if we can help each other understand, that is already an important step.
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[00:02:29 The CSPS animated logo appears onscreen. Text on screen: canada.ca/school.]
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