The ongoing affordability crunch and the threat of a looming recession will be front and centre as the federal Liberal cabinet holds a post-holiday cabinet retreat this week.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his ministers will spend the next three days in a Hamilton hotel, hammering out their political and policy strategy for the weeks and months ahead.
But the retreat comes as Canadians continue to feel the financial pinch of more than a year of heightened inflation, and now with an economy many expect to dip into a recession this year. "A lot of the prime minister's time in office has been defined by how he's had to respond to a series of emerging crises, and Canadians are starting this year looking at several once again," said Braeden Caley, executive director of the Canada 2020 think tank and a former director of communications for the Liberal Party of Canada.
Carlene Variyan, associate vice-president at Summa Strategies and a former senior staffer in several Liberal ministers' offices, said if there are more measures coming it will be similar to what has already been offered. "I expect that they'll be spending a fair amount of time in Hamilton next week doing a stock take of what they've been able to accomplish in a year and what they realistically expect to be able to accomplish during the remainder of the mandate," she said.
Cabinet also has to keep in mind the government's confidence-and-supply deal with the NDP. New Democrat Leader Jagmeet Singh signalled last week that the promise to pass pharmacare legislation this year must be upheld to keep the deal going.
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