Is the federal government on autopilot?

There will be future case studies on how not to run a government based on the recent FUBARs in Ottawa that make the Phoenix debacle look like a cakewalk.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appears before the Public Order Emergency Commission in Ottawa on Nov. 25. The overwhelming failures of the Government of Canada to manage its files has to be attributed to an excrementally poor capacity to manage or anticipate, writes Andrew Caddell. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY ANDREW CADDELL

December 14, 2022

OTTAWA—A number of years ago, I was flying into LaGuardia Airport in New York. The winds were fierce and the ride was bumpy all the way. As we flew over Manhattan, the plane began to angle sideways, then a little more. When the plane suddenly shifted, we were parallel to t...

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