Morneau says PMO consumed with short-term politicking, longer-term growth prospects not a priority

But the recent report on Canada’s fiscal outlook, quarterbacked by former Bank of Canada governor David Dodge, underlines the serious challenges we face. It assumes a potential growth rate of 1.8 per cent through the 2020s, too low to deliver the kind of country we want, writes David Crane.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, left, and then-finance minister Bill Morneau, pictured March 22, 2017, on budget day. In his new book, Morneau’s harsh assessment is that Trudeau and key figures in the PMO have been preoccupied with opportunistic and short-term thinking.The Hill Times photograph by Jake Wright

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

January 30, 2023

TORONTO—In her comments to journalists on the fringes of the Liberal government retreat in Hamilton, Finance Minster Chrystia Freeland said the focus of the 2023 federal budget, expected this spring, will be on health care and green energy, while holding to the government�...

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