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Category: Vital Speech

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Weird Scenes Inside the Archives: “‘Business As Usual’ Is Obsolete”

Something a little different for the Vital Speech of this week. A serendipitous spelunking sortie into the cavernous archives of the 88-year-old Vital Speeches of the Day magazine yielded a strangely echoey …

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“I Call Bullshit”

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I Ask Forgiveness … with Shame and Unambiguously

Madam Governor General, Mr. Prime Minister, Dear Indigenous peoples of Maskwacis and of this land of Canada, Dear brothers and sisters! I have been waiting to come here and be …

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Western Democracy Needs a New Project

Like 1945 or 1980, the West is at an inflection point. In 1945, the West had to create new institutions of international governance, of defence, and of European cooperation in …

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I Want You to Know How Sad I Am … But Them’s the Breaks

It is clearly now the will of the parliamentary Conservative Party that there should be a new leader of that party and therefore a new prime minister. And I’ve agreed …

Leadership Communication / Vital Speech

The Most Important Measure of Speech Success Is ‘Retellability’

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What Is Needed? What Can Best Be Done? What Must Be Done?

I’m profoundly grateful and touched by the great distinction and honor and great compliment accorded me by the authorities of Harvard this morning. I’m overwhelmed, as a matter of fact, …

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Two Principles of a Government that I Lead

I begin by acknowledging the traditional owners of the land on which we meet. I pay my respects to the elders past, present and emerging. And on behalf of the …

Vital Speech

What Are We Doing?

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