Budget 2021 is not up to the challenges we face

Chrystia Freeland’s responsibility is to do much better in the 2022 budget. The alternative is a poorer and weaker Canada and a brain-drain as our talent pursues opportunities elsewhere.

Canada needs a new federal budget, this time one in which Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland clearly and candidly sets out the fundamental challenges facing the country and in which she presents a clear plan on how to put Canada on the path to a more successful economy, writes David Crane. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

November 8, 2021

TORONTO—We need a new federal budget, this time one in which Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland clearly and candidly sets out the fundamental challenges facing the country and in which she also presents a clear plan on how to put Canada on the path to a more successful economy. Freeland’s fir...

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