Guess who?

Regular readers of this blog know that we are waist-deep in transcripts from our MP exit interview project. To date, we've spoken to 66 MPs from all parties living in most regions of Canada.  At two hours apiece, these interviews have generated a ton fascinating information that we'll be sharing in a number of ways, including in a series of reports, over the coming year.

We're starting where all good stories often do - at the beginning - and sorting out who our MPs are, and why and how they got into politics in the first place.  Given last week's unplanned "philosophy lives" series, this quote, from one of our interviews, particularly stood out: 

"I was fortunate that I studied philosophy at university because it was helpful in giving me a grounding in terms of what I really believed in. When you get [to Ottawa] the pressures are intense, in all the parties. That is what most of us, I think, as politicians liked about political life. It’s challenging, it’s conflict laden. You have to make decisions. It challenged you simultaneously intellectually and ethically, like almost nothing else.  The fact that I spent so many years of my life [in political philosophy] provided me with a framework in my personality, I think, that could deal with a lot of buffer, a lot of conflict, because I had a sense of, rightly or wrongly, what I believed in. That was very sustaining over a period."

Any guesses as to who said it?  Email me if you are too shy to guess below.

UPDATE: The answer is available here!