The Ottawa-based Macdonald-Laurier Institute has named Steven Guilbeault, federal minister of environment and climate change, its 2023 policy-maker of the year. “Ruthless, reckless and damaging,” the cover of the latest issue of MLI’s Inside Policy magazine calls him, announcing its choice.
Standing out for reckless and damaging policy-making is a real achievement in a government now famous for policy disasters. Its economic policy has created crises of unaffordability and stagnation; its foreign policy was recently praised by terror group Hamas ; and its social policy has descended into a parody of wokeness, with international headlines mocking Ottawa for providing free feminine hygiene products in men’s washrooms on Parliament Hill and instructing all federally regulated workplaces to do the same — since providing them only to women would not be equitable.
