Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is planning to call an election on Sunday, sources told Reuters . The first thing you should ask is: Is this about you, or is it…
Access to money or the ability to direct its usage is not an issue. Trudeau’s government was able to borrow and spent hundreds of billions of dollars pretty much at will, doubling the debt in the process. The only barrier facing Freeland in paying the bills was the time it took her to get a handle on it all; in the end Ottawa went two years between budgets with nary a peep of protest.
Climate change? What could an election possibly deliver on that front? We all know the government’s position, we’ve all heard the pledges and sloganeering. The carbon tax is in place, the future increases already advertised. The latest doom-laden projections from the UN are out and the plan is to do … what? All the same stuff? It hardly needs another airing, and six more weeks of arguing is unlikely to alter positions that have long since been set in stone.
What we decidedly could use are some credible policies on problems that badly need addressing, health care overwhelmingly among them. It has long been evident to anyone who cared to look that Canada needs a serious revamp in a system that delivers mediocre care at very high cost. For years we’ve glided along assuring ourselves we had a world-beating program, largely because it makes us feel good to say so. But we don’t.
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