Trudeau’s agenda suggests feds need full four years until October 2023 to get it all done

It would be useful if the political parties could find ways to cooperate and make things work, rather than dare each other to bring the government down.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, pictured in Ottawa on Oct. 1, 2020. Crises offer our society the opportunity to cower and run for cover, or to be bold and think big. We have the opportunity to reimagine our society, learn the lessons that have been laid bare this year, and build back better, writes Andrew Cardozo. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CARDOZO

October 19, 2020

OTTAWA—Government has to walk, chew gum, and dance at the same time. Fourteen years ago, the NDP killed Canada’s national child care plan days after it was signed and sealed. The party can’t do it again this time. In 2006, the minority Liberal government of Paul Martin had signed a complex s...

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