I just came back from Finland, where I was studying forestry and climate change and their parliamentary system. I was impressed in all three areas. I won't go into lots of detail, but I was particularly impressed that Finland is a whole lot better than we are at cooperating issue to issue across party lines. They're much more collaborative and cooperative and are less confrontational. Their form of coalition government seems to be working reasonably well. I was impressed with that. So I hope we can emulate that model more.
On June 18th, 2009. See this statement in context.