The middle class is still waiting

A funny thing happened on the way to Justin Trudeau's new world of justice for the middle class: The federal government ran out of money.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau, pictured in this file photo at Public Policy Forum event on Oct. 5, 2016 at the Shaw Centre in Ottawa. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY PAUL WELLS

February 27, 2017

OTTAWA—A funny thing happened on the way to Justin Trudeau's new world of justice for the middle class: The federal government ran out of money. On Feb. 22, I told you about Justin Trudeau's speech last week in Hamburg, where he told a blue-chip crowd in the German port city about the challenges...

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