It wasn’t enough for Chrystia Freeland to drive Canada off an economic cliff as finance minister, ushering in heaps of debt and deficits more intense with the year. She wants to do it all over again — just from the prime minister’s seat.
And really, that’s all she can do. Freeland can’t offer change because, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s no. 2 since 2019, the Trudeau government might as well have been her government. What she can do is stuff his most working-class friendly ideas — in appearance, at least — into a bouquet, adding to them a few proposals plucked from other parties elsewhere to fool onlookers into thinking it’s all new.
