As Michael Valpy reports in today's Globe and Mail, a poll on the role of emotion in public policy shows Canadians overwhelmingly eschew emotionality as a basis for either their own political decision-making and are equally allergic to to the idea that emotion is a good thing in their leaders.
The Ekos-Globe-Walter Gordon Symposium poll kicks off coverage of a two-day symposium, part of the 2010 Walter Gordon Symposium on "Private Emotions, Public Policy" that takes place at 8:00 p.m. on March 16, 2010 at the Isabel Bader Theatre at the University of Toronto. Speakers for that event include David Pizzarro, a political psychologist of the emotions from Cornell University; Christina Tarnolpolsky, a political philosopher from McGill University; and the Honourable Bob Rae.
Read the op-ed column on the issue by Mr. Pizzaro in today's Globe and Mail.
Frank Graves of Ekos Research and The Globe's Mr. Valpy were online Tuesday from Noon-1 p.m. ET and discussed the findings. Read the chat transcript below.