#20 Marc Garneau: The Future of Transportation

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

Farnam Street

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.7 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2017

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Marc Garneau is a Canadian politician, Engineer, and the Minister of Transport. This interview was recorded live in front of an audience in Montreal. As a bilingual country, you'll hear bits of French from the audience questions here and there but the interview is predominately in English.

In this interview, we discuss the future of transportation (including self-driving cars), infrastructure investments, space, what it means to be a liberal in 2017, how we — as citizens — can judge an elected politician, how he ensures he's getting accurate information in a political system and so much more.

Enjoy this amazing conversation.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Shane Parrish and welcome to a new episode of The Knowledge Project where we
0:12.6	deconstruct actionable strategies that you can use to make better decisions, learn new
0:16.4	things, and live a better life.
0:19.0	This time around we have the honorable Mark Garnet, who is the Minister of Transport for
0:23.2	the Canadian Government.
0:24.5	Mark's been an elected member of Parliament since 2008 and previously served as the critic
0:29.3	for industry, science, and technology, as well as foreign affairs.
0:33.5	He's been the house leader in the House of Commons, and he was also the first Canadian
0:37.7	to fly in space.
0:38.8	Now how cool is that?
0:39.8	But if a brief heads up, this interview was recorded live in Montreal, Canada.
0:45.1	The audio is going to be a little bit different than what you're used to, and there's bits
0:48.3	of French here and there, but don't worry.
0:51.2	Mark brings an engineer's mindset to government decisions, and I really enjoyed the conversation
0:55.6	I think you will to, without further ado, here's Mark.
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