What you always do before you make a decision is consult. The best public policy is made when you are listening to people who are going to be impacted. Then, once a policy is determined, you call on them to help you sell it.

We're grateful to have a decision at last that keeping prisoner identities secret is against the public policy and the law of this country.

I'm at a point in my life where I very much want to continue to work on public policy, on measures that we can adopt to improve life for all the citizens in the province. But I'm also at a point in my life where I want to do that without the demands of being in politics.

You've got the foxes guarding the hen house, and that is never a good way to make public policy,

It's not being driven by public policy.

Remember we put a cap on benefit passing, a $250 cap, and I think public policy in this state is we don't want to see large benefit passing. And, indeed, we're not seeing it.