It’s become popular in Mark Carney’s new Liberal government to talk in sports metaphors. The prime minister often sprinkles his speeches with hockey references and the timing of the next major-project announcements has been repeatedly framed around forthcoming tournaments, such as the Grey Cup.
There aren’t many sports, though, in which backward movement is equated with success — perhaps the reverse-running trend that was supposedly catching on a few years ago? So there isn’t a handy way to compare what’s happening in progressive politics in Canada to something in the sporting world.
But there’s no question — in fact, a column in this very newspaper declared it’s already a cliche to say it — that a backsliding in progressivism is under way in the federal post-election world in Canada.
It’s called policy for profit and it’s spelled ‘Brookfield’.
