Stephen Lewis

He understands the issue of climate change very, very well.

My friend Stephen Lewis used to say, look, he's just a banker, for God's sake.

Don't expect him to act any different.

I cut Carney a lot of slack and I'm glad that he's up there.

Thank you.

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June Colwood is one.

Michelle Landsberg, who's Stephen Lewis's wife.

They're both journalists.

They both had a huge impact on me as I was growing up, just watching and listening to them.

Happened to me in Atlantic Canada five or six times.

People come up to me and say, you know, "I saw your dad speak in the nineties, and I moved to Tanzania and became, like, a public health worker." [chuckles] Like, the, the number of people, especially in his work on the file of HIV and AIDS in Africa, he was the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy on AIDS in Africa, and then the Stephen Lewis Foundation, obviously a long-standing institution that raises money for frontline groups in Africa confronting that pandemic.

The number of people that he inspired to pick up their lives and go and work in Africa fighting HIV/AIDS and supporting communities on the front lines has utterly blown my mind.

I need to sneak in one more question-

So I, I was just thinking, you know, maybe let us in a little bit o- on your personal life, if you don't mind.

Um, like, are you a pet person or a city lover, or do you like the great outdoors, or, uh, d- do, do you just love being a dad, or are you a good cook or not? Or, you know, tell us something about yourself that-

[laughs] I feel like-

You know

Yeah.

I mean, so I will say that I, you know, I come from a political family.

My dad, Stephen Lewis, my grandpa, David.

I grew up in this environment where it was our family political culture that you go hard on the policies and you go soft on the people.