Some were better than others. Let's see, I was on the Kim Campbell campaign in 1993, a surplus of democracy, I might point out there. I've been involved in federal politics from 1984 through to 1993 working for various ministers, Prime Minister Mulroney and Minister Clark, on constitutional issues. I worked for Premier Lord as deputy minister, intergovernmental affairs, and policy and planning around the cabinet office, and also was chief of staff briefly on democratic reform. I worked for Minister Flaherty as his chief of staff. In the last five years, from 2007 to 2012, I was the president of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy. I've worked in a policy and small “p” political environment, also in a partisan environment. I've been in campaigns. I've done door-knocking; I've worked on buses, and all the rest of it. It's a bit of both, but not recently in a partisan way.
On March 31st, 2014. See this statement in context.