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Alison Loat - Lifting the Veil on Public Service and Politics - Part 1


Alison Loat
Executive Director, Samarat


Alison is the co-founder and Executive Director of Samara, an organization based on the idea that public service and public leadership matter. Samara is involved in projects that strengthen:

  • Political leadership;
  • The connection of citizens, both to each other and to public ideas; and
  • The media's contribution to public affairs.

Alison is a graduate of Queen's University and the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She is also an Associate Fellow at the School of Public Policy and Governance and teaches at the Rotman School of Management, at the University of Toronto.


She has also worked with McKinsey & Company and co-founded Canada25, a non-partisan organization that successfully involved thousands of Canadians under the age of 35 in the development of public policy. Maclean's magazine named Alison to its Top 25 under 30 for her work with Canada25, and in 2005 she received the Public Policy Forum Young Leaders Award.

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jackie cox Comment by jackie cox on October 1, 2009 at 12:47am
Me, I'm the kind of guy that respects everyones right to life liberty and the persuit of happiness, I can speak and understand french, having lived in Montreal 18 years, its plain to see there is no shortage of people jerked around by the media who have come to believe otherwise, in " La Belle Province " I'm thinking youse guys have started something you haven't the wherewithall to finish. I am saddened by the utter disrespect you have for the others and especially your children, who will bear the brunt of " Payback " which always seems to ultimately come to those who disrespect the rights of others. Christian peoples went for centuries, accepting the harsh reality of bullies, having been told they would go to hell, but there is a change in the wind, the younger victims are in the mood and at the ready to actually send them to hell. thereby eliminating the bullies from their facist position of legal rule, don't get me wrong, I wouldn't be any different from anyone else if I had lived their lives, I suppose we are all just victims, to some extent. I don't love, nor hate, peoples who gang up together in an effort to victimize others, and the families who stick together when attacked (clans), are easy to target, its simple for the PQ, or the quebecois, or the bloc quebecois, or whatever they will call themselves tomorrow, if they do have a tomorrow. To simply look up the data bases on the computer and target all members of a family, or a nationality, or a business competitor of the ruling group in Quebec, the police, dept. of taxation, immigration, etc etc, they are all ready to hit anyone on their hit lists, thats what happened to the 600,000 or so anglos removed from " LaBelle Province " but eh? time changes all things, dams break, bridges become impassable, simple roadways are vulnerable, That may be the very realm that causes so few citizens to remain in quebec, of the ones who bought into quebec immigrations landed immigrant sale, Mostly, given the choice of living their life speakin french or sneaking off to the USA where you can speak whatever you want, they choose the latter, otherwise Quebec would have more citizens than the rest of canada, Immigration Quebec immigrates about 200,000 new quebeckers per annum, the desperate people, many from other failed frenchy countries like haiti, vietnam, berunda, rewanda, and the rest of all those failed french colonies (too many to count in refugee camps, would eat their mothers, just to be released from refugee camps, worse even than palestine, although they all share one thing in common. They were all sitting on assets the world class mafia wanted and had to become homelessness at the will of those with the cash to create all the paramilitaries who ethnically cleanse large areas. The only thing keeping youse guys from being th same way is yer proximinty to the USA, the ethnic cleansing in quebec amounts to the same thing, broken families, businesses, ways of life destroyed, but in america, people are more accepting of newcomers. But ethnic cleansing, to get the copper in northern quebec worth trillions ( a well kept secret ) by the media, will ultimately find its way into the united nations and there will be payback, but as always, its just victims against victims, the world class mafia are international citizens, they scoff at federal governments, When their schemes are discovered they dissappear, for a time, they will be back, only later. The world class mafia, hiding behind one ethnic group, is a room of smoke and mirrors. These guys will become Arabic, like the royal families in kuwait, and saudi arabia, they can become communists, long enough for the assets to be under one ownership, then disband the gouvernment and voila dozens of new jewish billionaires (russian branch of world class mafia. They surface in North America, South America, Africa. They buy a chinese wife and a few generations they are the politbureau of china, these guys would have remained hidden forever were it not for the one book ( the internet ) They don't realize it yet, but their days are numbered, or their childrens days are numbered, you see they only think of themselves, and while totally criminal , they control the laws to make it so, and they actually believe the common man will never figure them out. Or if they do the laws will have become convoluted there is nothing to be done they cannot litigate into eternity. Looking into the future in a world with one book, and children having the inherent desire to do the right things, will mean and end to the academic caste system we are part of and have come to believe in, Were I you then I would be as you, were you me, then you would do as I do. At the end of the day it comes down to instrumentation, thats what defines us, imagine going from a horse and buggy to the automobile, overnight, or the television, or one book allowing every kid who can spell anything he wants to know the historical chronological sequence of events within any field, available to him, yale, harvard, etc etc etc can't even graduate a networking engineer, these guys are academic, just waiting to be put in the landfill along with their concepts of design for fashion, as opposed to functionality. Point>Shell Oil had a contest for hightschool science depts to build a man driven car to get the best gas milage, 1st place over 2,000 miles per galon, a light metal frame, bicycle tires a one cylinder engine with a belt drive, and it could be networked with every car in its vicinity to safely arrive at a destination quicker than the huge piles of trash we drive down the roads, depleting earth resources, 2nd place got over 1500 mpg, they built a decent looking carbody over the same contraption. If I were you and were truely in the spirit of unconditional love and respect for all that is, then I would consider the predisposing main variable. Seabottom sedimenttion reveals earths reoccuring cycles, long ice ages lasting for hundreds of millions of years, followed by short warming periods of millions of years, and then back to the uninhabitable planet, unless we begin to design for functionality, with awareness of this massive predisposing influence. which We don't know why, the possibilities are endless. But we do know we need to stop proclaiming we have the truth and admit our primitive instrumentation and puny languages still can't describe reality, quit teaching anything but objective data aquisition, and start making decisions with access to the variables, to establish the route to the truth, as opposed to now, where we pretend we have it and actually teach einstienian theory etc etc. Our families are vastly too big, we should recognize just how precious and the potential of our human cargo is and what a person can be. quit thinkng of ourselves and go for the truth, the absence of a lie--in the spirit of truth---or perish

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