I'm vaccinated for what it's worth, and I'm not stating that it's some badge of moral superiority, but... it seems to me that the right policy move is 'Here's the vaccines, they're available, we're opening up, take your chances, and away we go, and let's get back to our free life.'

The next pandemic worries me, too, because we've now we've established a precedent, which is, if the health risk is severe enough, then your civil liberties are optional.

I believe, personally, I believe this, that it's very, very probable to me that massive solutions to the climate change problem, the global-scale solutions, even national-scale solutions, are going to cause far more trouble than the problem itself will cause. I really believe that.

It seems to me that if we don't have a delineated space, conceptually and socially, for the sacred and the religious, and that it's put in its proper relationship to the other things that we're concerned about, then what happens is not that we become pure rationalists... but that much that should never be religious instantly becomes contaminated with it.

Everything in our political landscape is becoming contaminated, as far as I can tell, with what are, essentially, religious concerns—and I mean that psychologically, not theologically.

I'm not interested so much in what people should and shouldn't do in some 'rules' sense. I'm more interested in trying to discover and discuss with people what principles we should live by, each of us as individuals, that would serve each of us and the collective best—and I can't see why you wouldn't want that.

I should say, in Quebec's defense, that Montreal is a great city. If people in the US want a quick taste of Europe, Montreal's a great place ... It's truly one of the world's great cities.

We need to have a really serious conversation about the psychological reality of the religious and how it exists in relationship to, let's say, the political or the ideological. Because if that's all mangled together incautiously, all sorts of things happen that we don't want to have happen.