Some experts also worry about the effect that increasing dependence on the government will have on the quality of news and the trust of readers, which is already in decline.
Conservatives need to realize that the landscape has changed. For a long time they’ve had the upper hand on the housing file, which is arguably responsible for their meteoric rise in the polls. But now, it seems, the Liberals have woken up.
Lack of fiscal discipline has abounded since the Liberals took power in 2015. GDP per capita has been flat for much of the past decade, which is one indication that this strategy has not been going particularly well.
In order to exercise power the government must remain alert and responsive at all times to the interests and opinions of a range of elected and unelected persons. A parliamentary government follows, even as it leads.
Appearing behind a podium with the phrase “Your Pension, Your Choice,” Alberta Premier Danielle Smith promised that the province’s proposed withdrawal from the Canada Pension Plan, in favour of a homemade solution, will result in lower rates and bigger benefits.
This week’s Hub Roundtable discusses the fallout from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation of India’s involvement in the killing of a Sikh Canadian earlier this year. We also talk about the ongoing Greenbelt development scandal in Ontario and what a series of high-level resignations means for Doug Ford’s government.
This episode of Hub Dialogues features Avik Roy, the founder and president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, a U.S.-based public policy think tank, about the recently released Freedom Conservative Statement and new ideological tensions with American conservatism.
We can’t escape the past any more than we can escape our own past. Even when we forget it, it re-emerges like an atavistic gene.
Justin Trudeau’s tenure as prime minister shows that experience doesn’t always equate to gravitas. He may continue to spit out all the right diplomatic buzzwords at global summits, but his fellow world leaders have long since tuned him out.
While the secessionist leaders contend with the decline of their movement, federalists, even those who disagree, have tried to move on and avoid becoming drawn into yet another debate over Quebec’s place in the country.
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