Finally, an issue the Conservatives’ unlikely populists can work with

The pain of inflation is obvious to all, it’s not easy to fix, and the party in power will bear a good deal of the blame even if it’s a global problem beyond Ottawa’s control.

What Conservative finance critic Pierre Poilievre has in common with the so-called ‘left-behind’ and ‘forgotten’ Canadians the Conservatives are trying to court with their anti-elitist pitch is difficult to imagine, writes Les Whittington. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

December 8, 2021

OTTAWA—As with the housing market, hollowed-out commercial real estate, remote work, and the massive rethink of desirable jobs, the global tornado known as the pandemic has produced an unexpected spike in inflation rivalling anything seen in decades. Next week’s fiscal update by Finance Ministe...

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