Election campaign should be about creating a new economy, not extending and expanding the old one

So far, the politicians are letting us down. If the job of government is to represent the future to the present, they get a failing grade. But we will all be losers.

U.S. President Donald Trump, centre, Prime Minister Mark Carney, top left, and Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. Trump's trade war has forced Canada to rethink its economic position in the world, but David Crane says Canada's political leaders are missing the mark with talk of accelerating oil and gas projects and critical minerals. The Hill Times photographs by Andrew Meade, Wikimedia Commons, and Pixabay, and illustration courtesy of Joey Sabourin

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

April 14, 2025

TORONTO—It has been said that if everyone thinks the same way, then no one is thinking. This might be said about our election campaign.

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