text: "We don’t want Canadians to be inherently distrustful of experts, to presume that a person is less ethical because they have a higher or lower net worth, or to believe that those with global outlooks aren’t patriotic. "
  
  Perhaps we don't want Canadians to be inherently distrustful, but skeptical seems reasonable. Experts need to have their credentials verified and their claims should stand up to scrutiny based on objective facts and reasonable argument. 
  
  On the other hand, we probably should be inherently distrustful of the wealthy who, in the vast majority of cases, have either inherited their wealth, gained it through shady investments or by appropriating the surplus value from other peoples' labour.
  
  And indeed, those who benefit mostly from global neoliberal capitalism, which leverages the new mobility of capital to exploit labour and avoid taxation, should be made to feel fear.