Be ‘honest about how difficult it is and try to keep the bullshit to a minimum’: Graham Steele, on how to be an effective politician

Graham Steele talks about his book, The Effective Citizen: How to Make Politicians Work for You, and how he explores 'the last frontier of politics, inside the politician's head.'

Graham Steele, author of the bestselling What I Learned About Politics, talks about his second book The Effective Citizen: How to Make Politicians Work for You. 'Being a politician's a very difficult job, and the ones I admire I guess are the ones who are honest about how difficult it is and how challenging it is, and try to keep the bullshit to a minimum,' he said.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY KATE MALLOY

July 30, 2018

When Graham Steele was Nova Scotia's finance minister and in charge of $10-billion a year in government spending, a lot of people wanted to talk to him. But it didn't take him long to figure out that a lot of those same people didn't know how to lobby government. Now that he's been out of politics ...

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