Trust crucial ingredient for effective government: ESM Goh

Kuala Lumpur

TRUST between the government and the people is essential, for it allows for long-term action to be taken even if painful in the short term, Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said on Wednesday.

But trust is also something that governments will have to "go out and earn every day", especially from the younger generation who have different aspirations.

"We are lucky to be able to have it for the last 50 years," he declared at the Gl…