Releasing a detailed, costed platform is quite rightly seen as a basic obligation of a political campaign. You don’t necessarily need one to win , but if everyone has one other than you people certainly have a right to ask why you don’t . Every party claims to have a plan; surely they should at least be able to put it down on paper and have some basic idea of how much it will cost.
All that said, the Liberals may well be worse off for releasing their platform over the weekend. Seeing Liberal Leader Mark Carney’s vision on paper, all in one place, is somehow more jarring than hearing it piecemeal. Even straight-up headlines like “Liberal platform promises $130 billion in new measures over four years, adding $225 billion to federal debt” (per the CBC), will likely not have landed well with Canadians looking to move on definitively from a decade of Trudeaunomics.
