The future of Canadian health care will be about the private sector becoming super proficient at solving health-care problems. This is inevitable because governments are simply not capable of doing the job.
Eliminating conspiracy theories during pandemics is virtually impossible. Understanding that they exist, and why, is important in determining how best to confront them. Restoring faith in institutions will be key.
In our system, parliament reigns supreme. No one faction can override democracy just by being loud and disruptive.
Hope speaks to a view of life four or ten years from now. How will Canada be better? How will we measure our collective prosperity? Unless a campaign talks about that and sounds authentic about its vision, it will continue to fall off the edge of the election cliff.
Criticisms levelled at Canadian private universities also often fail to acknowledge the challenges that can exist at publicly assisted universities: enormous class sizes, an overreliance on sessional adjunct instructors and students who are just numbers that fall through the cracks.
When it comes to big decisions, governments are pulled in different directions all the time. Our leaders know they have to quash the COVID-19 virus, but they do not know the best way of getting there.
