Trudeau’s second year: the cake is half-baked, but the icing is good

If you like sponge cake, this is your moment. But, if you are wondering if the Liberals ever meant to be the fairer, greener and more open government they promised to be—you are not alone.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, centre, pictured with his wife Sophie Grégoire-Trudeau, second right, Status of Women Minister Maryam Monsef, left, International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau, second left, and Women Deliver President and CEO Katja Iversen on the Hill on June 12. The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

June 26, 2017

GATINEAU, QUE.—Amid a cascade of half-measures, the Trudeau government wrapped up its second session last week with a decidedly mixed record. If you were weighing Liberal accomplishments, one side of the scale would be piled high with sponge cake, the other with a few lengths of pipeline. The gov...

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