The first time I spoke with Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat was in 2012.
It was a sunny Saturday morning and people of different backgrounds - I remember a doctor, a housewife, a retiree, one or two activists, a couple of journalists, some students and politicians, of course - were at the National Library Building in Victoria Street to talk to one another about the issues that mattered to them, and to Singapore's future.
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