Budget will set the stage for how well we emerge from the pandemic

We could face the risk of stagnation unless we become a more dynamic, innovative, and productive country.

Once Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland has delivered the government’s budget, the government should create an arm’s length body to monitor Canada’s transition to a more productive, greener and equitable economy.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

March 25, 2021

TORONTO—The federal budget on April 19 will set the stage for how well we emerge from the pandemic and what kind of country we start to build over the next five years. Done right, the budget will push and pull Canada towards a new and more productive economy. That really has to be the overriding ...

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