Canada’s big, urgent economic priority is dynamic growth

But for a growth agenda to succeed, we need broad public engagement, not self-serving secrecy that characterizes the Trudeau government and policy-makers today and serves the interests of corporate lobbyists seeking to make deals behind closed doors. But this also means getting MPs to do what they were actually elected to do.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured April 6, 2022, greeting the media and store clerks at the shoe store in the Rideau Centre where she bought her budget-day shoes. The Hill Times photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

May 2, 2022

TORONTO—Canada’s big and urgent economic priority is a dynamic growth agenda that can promise good jobs, deliver the wealth we need to pay for essential public services, such as education and health, and improve the lives and life chances of the disadvantaged. So it’s critical that we get it r...

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