Opinion: The coalition chatter has given O’Toole an opening — some may say a lifeline — to change the channel from the recent vaccination controversies
, declaring Monday that an agreement between the NDP and Liberals was a “radical” notion that it would result in “billions of dollars of new spending to buy Jagmeet Singh’s silence.” He hammered that message home at a press conference Tuesday morning, where he unveiled changes to his shadow cabinet. That included the return of attack dog Pierre Poilievre as finance critic, whose job it will be to hold the Liberals accountable for rising inflation.
And costs are indeed surging: 4.1 per cent inflation in August, compared to a year earlier, and 4.4 per cent for September. The Bank of Canada predicts inflation could hit five per cent by the end of the year. While That’s bad news for Trudeau. It also comes right after the PM’s much-vaunted Ministry of Middle Class Prosperity disappeared from his new cabinet. Trudeau stuffed his team with left-leaning, big-spending acolytes, while showing the door to more pragmatic voices like Marc Garneau and Jim Carr. Such a cabinet is not only primed to implement a big-government vision; it is likely more amenable to the types of policies demanded by New Democrats — on whose support the Liberals now depend.
Enter the Conservatives, who tend to do better, and present a more united front, when their focus is on economic issues, instead of social issues, which tend to divide them. O’Toole and the Tory brain trust know this.
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