There is a radical way out of this bear trap. The government could just explain itself and talk to its audience like adults with brains in their heads
If you enjoy howlingly awkward human theatre – and who among us is above such delights? – watching a late-stage government try to gnaw its way out of the bear trap of its own incumbency is spectacular entertainment.
As even a glancing acknowledgment that things are not going well for a long-in-the-tooth government trailing the Conservatives in polls consistently for the last several months, it wasn’t much of a mea culpa, but points for artistic impression.
“We are Liberals,” Ms. Freeland responded. “We believe government has an important role to play in supporting Canadians, in building a social-welfare net that supports Canadians and in putting in place programs that help our economy to grow.” At a certain point, this is a ruthless, zero-sum game in both rhetorical terms and three-dimensional reality: Something has either been true all along or it’s new, but it cannot be both.
There is one other way out of this bear trap, of course, but it’s a radical move. The government could just explain itself, talk to its audience like adults with brains in their heads, treat practical questions as reasonable propositions deserving of answers rather than vulgarities in need of a good scolding.proposing a national housing accord were at the cabinet retreat to offer a housing-reform bootcamp.
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