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Of all the COVID-inspired clichés of 2020, “we can’t go back to how we were before” gets my vote for most trying. Taken literally, it is empty. We can’t undo the deaths, restore students’ lost…
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From: Luc Godbout To: Chrystia Freeland, Minister of Finance Date: November 10, 2020 Re: Fiscal anchors, compasses, golden rules, guardrails or targets – by any name, let’s get…
Op-Ed
Looked at one way, the federal government’s recent musings about spending tens — even hundreds — of billions more dollars on a raft of new programs seem weird. Nobody thought we could afford such a…

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