High stakes for everyone: tests of Liberal-NDP deal and geopolitics to define 2023

For a country heading into 2023 already facing deep affordability and productivity issues, an epochal transition to a greener economy and relentless global competition for jobs and investment, how the government responds to this test of geopolitics will have high stakes for all of us, writes Jacquie LaRocque.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet, and Green Leader Elizabeth May. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade and Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY JACQUIE LAROCQUE

December 29, 2022

OTTAWA—Last year, the Liberal government faced a perfect storm of challenges both at home and abroad—from soaring inflation and interest rates eroding affordability of housing, food and essentials, to the economic and geopolitical turmoil caused by the Russian invasion o...

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