Trudeau and Poilievre aren’t focused on what needs to be done

Canada urgently needs a bold growth strategy if we are to face the future with confidence, rather than channelling down into a despairing view that this country is broken and can’t be fixed. If we're broken, it will be a self-inflicted fate.

Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured on Feb. 6, 2024, will table the federal budget on April 16 at 4 p.m. in the House of Commons. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

April 15, 2024

TORONTO—On the eve of Budget 2024, there are many troubling signs that point to a difficult future. But there are scant indications that either the current government, or the government-in-waiting, is properly focused on what needs to be done.

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