Liberals should be worried

The Trudeau government will not be judged by how many consultations it has held, or how many reports it has received, but whether it has delivered on its promise to strengthen the middle class.

Innovation Minister Navdeep Bains says 'the Government of Canada is committed to thinking big, aiming high, and acting boldly.' Big words. But there’s too little muscle behind these words. We have words but not action, writes David Crane.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

February 13, 2017

TORONTO—Liberals should be worried. The odds are growing that the Trudeau government could fail in its overarching pledge to strengthen the middle class, a pledge that is supposed to drive almost everything the government does. But unless it can improve Canada’s potential growth rate for the ec...

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