Are we happy? Are we supposed to be?

Economic gears have been grinding in unsettling ways since the pandemic, there are no quick fixes, and the first responsibility of any government should be to protect the vulnerable. Everyone else will survive—and may even find something to celebrate.

Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, in announcing her government’s two-month GST holiday on certain goods and a $250 check for working Canadians in the spring—referred to the 'vibe-session,' a newly-coined phrase that refers to the divide between complicated economic reality and the way people are feeling. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY SUSAN RILEY

December 9, 2024

CHELSEA, QUE.—There are so many gloomy headlines these days—hysterical claims of economic peril from certain premiers, legitimate concern over Donald Trump’s itchy tariff finger, overwhelmed food banks, and growing homeless encampments—that they risk killing the...

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