This is a testing time for leadership

Our next government must address the big challenges of economic growth, innovation, and productivity, environmental sustainability, including climate change, and economic and social equity. The road to success will be highly disruptive and could also be highly divisive.

If we are to succeed as a successful society in all these dimensions we don’t have a choice. The more important question is whether our MPs can adapt to the need for new economic thinking. We are living in uncertain times where the old normal is gone.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

October 21, 2019

TORONTO—It has been an appalling election campaign where the biggest challenges we face were largely ignored. But once the vote-counting is over, MPs will have little choice but to face up to the looming realities that seriously threaten their easy promises of an affordable and prosperous future. ...

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