At 19 years of age, where will the wisdom to run a powerful country come from?
PB: Our current prime ministers, Jean Chrétien and Paul Martin, are both senior citizens, and they don’t seem very wise to me! My age is not a handicap: it is an advantage. I represent a new generation of Canadians who are tired of our paternalistic welfare state. I don’t claim to have the wisdom to decide what’s good for other people. People can decide for themselves: they don’t need government bureaucrats telling them what to do. You ask me how I plan to run a powerful country. Well, I don’t. The prime minister shouldn’t “run” the country. If I were prime minister, instead of planning society like a game of Risk, I would make sure our rights to property and liberty are protected. After, I’d go play golf and leave people alone. Q: What is the most radical change you would make to the country? PB: Our current state is, in the words of French political philosopher Frédéric Bastiat, “a great fiction by which everybody tries to live at the expense of everyone else.” The State has become a
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