Missing the point of Freeland’s what-have-we-got-to-lose mini-budget

The Nov. 21 economic statement was the implicit recognition of the political reality facing the Liberals in the aftermath of eight years of all-in investment policy.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s, left, fall economic statement signalled that times have changed since 2016 when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the Liberals had a mandate from Canadians to invest, not cut spending, writes Les Whittington.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY LES WHITTINGTON

November 29, 2023

OTTAWA—While focused on the size of the federal deficit in keeping with decades of right-wing myth-making, people for the most part seemed to have missed the upshot of Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s nothing-left-to-lose fall economic statement.

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