No wonder Albert Einstein said that politics is more difficult than mathematics. Human nature always is. Unlike relativity, political phenomena cannot be reduced to a mathematical formula, much less simple verbal explanations. `Sometimes, it just comes down to who the voters feel in their guts is most like them, if not in personality then in values.
Thomas McMillan, Minister of Environment under Prime Minister Brian Mulroney (1985-1988). He helped him make progress on acid rain, depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer, and the early steps in climate change.
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