Western Standard - August 29, 2023


Chrystia Freeland, Deputy Prime of Minister of Canada ｜ 2023 Northeastern University Graduate Speech

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Episode Stats


Length

2 minutes

Words per minute

109.25

Word count

222

Sentence count

14


Summary

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Learn English with Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama is the first woman to become Prime Minister of the United States of America. She is also a former US Vice President, and served as the first female prime minister of her country, New York City.

Transcript

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00:00:00.880 Our time of tranquility is over and we are living in an age of change.
00:00:08.160 We're living through what President Biden, on a visit to my country in March, called an inflection
00:00:14.720 point. A time of transformation, he said, that comes once every five or six generations. Now,
00:00:23.920 like it or not, you are graduating into that inflection point. And as some of the very best
00:00:31.120 educated people on our planet, you have the rare and precious opportunity to shape it.
00:00:38.800 So what is this inflection point? What is this upheaval which is going to the roots of humanity
00:00:45.760 itself? There are many ways to describe this transformational moment, but I think they all
00:00:53.280 come down to one fundamental question. Does capitalist democracy still work?
00:01:02.800 That's the question being posed around kitchen tables in my country and this one. As parents
00:01:09.520 wonder if our children can count on capitalist democracy's essential promise of a future more
00:01:16.080 prosperous than our present. It is the question being posed in the muddy and bloodied trenches
00:01:23.200 of Bahamut as Ukraine's brave Democrats resist the invading forces of Putin's dictatorship.
00:01:32.720 And it is the question being posed by our shrinking glaciers and our warming oceans,
00:01:39.200 which are asking us, wordlessly but emphatically, if democratic societies can rise to the existential
00:01:48.400 challenge of climate change.
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