Real leadership will be needed, post pandemic

The job of leadership is to aggregate a range of different preferences in our society into some kind of shared vision for the future that the great majority can support and embrace. The world is changing on us and those societies that fare best in the future world will be those best prepared to understand and deal with change.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured April 19, 2021, in Ottawa after releasing the federal budget in the House and on her way to the National Press Theatre across the street. Perhaps in the call to 'build back better,' what matters most to people is 'better.'The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

July 21, 2021

TORONTO—After the 9/11 terrorist attacks in the U.S., president George W. Bush told the American people the best thing they could do to help their country was to go shopping and buy more things. Today, we are getting similar exhortations, this time from our own government, hoping that the quickest...

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