Every year CBC, House of Anansi Press and Massey College partner to present the Massey Lectures. It's a forum where Canadian thinkers bring forward ideas that are essential dialogue for our country.
I've only listened to the fifth lecture thus far and it is such a relevant and important discussion for the world today. Jennifer Welsh discusses inequality. A snippet of the full lecture below. Highly encourage listening to all five and especially this final one. No matter how this election shakes down, I wonder what role inequality plays in all of this.
There's a myth that great wealth enables our economies to grow, but wealth can actually stand in the way of economic development; inequity can slow us down. Fairness lies at the heart of liberal democracy, and in the face of unfairness, we rebel. Unfairness makes us work less hard to create a good society- why should I work hard, what's in it for me? Economic inequality inevitably translates into political inequality, which is not what we thought we were working towards.
Being a Force for Good 