The prospect of losing your job in the next year or so concentrates the mind. Instead, this government is comfortable and complacent
This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.“Everything has gotten thicker again,” said one Liberal. “We don’t recognize we are still a minority government.”
But the two-million person backlog at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada is not going away anytime soon, particularly not when the government insists on increasing the number of new permanent residents every year.Article content The government may attempt to shore up the system by shuffling some senior public servants and perhaps creating a cabinet committee focused on service delivery. A more brutal solution would be to move some well-meaning but inexperienced ministers into less sensitive portfolios.Yes, it navigated through the pandemic but that played to its strengths -— spending money.
Those with long memories say it would be a “deadly miscalculation” to make light of Poilievre’s effectiveness — in the way that Paul Martin’s Liberals did when Stephen Harper was elected CPC leader; or, as the Harper government did when Trudeau became Liberal leader.Article content A compromise will likely emerge by the next federal budget that includes fresh health-care spending and provincial connivance on dental — a deal that would ensure the NDP remain suppliant.
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