The main question raised by Wednesday’s throne speech is why we — or WE, as it is sometimes styled — needed to have one at all. We were told that extraordinary times called for extraordinary measures, a sharp change in direction, debate in Parliament and a new mandate. “Canada is at a crossroads,” Prime Minister Justin Trudeau intoned in August. “This is our moment to change the future for the better.”
“Our realities have changed,” Gov. Gen. Julie Payette read in the Senate on Wednesday, “and so must our approach.” Nearly 7,000 words later, however, the ship of state hardly seems to have changed course at all.
To be fair, early on in the interregnum, some Liberals clearly had genuine ambitions. Notably we heard much talk that the speech would unveil a plan to transform the Canadian economy into a green colossus. The speech proposes nothing of the sort, for good reason: Many Canadians were unlikely to appreciate the Trudeau gang leveraging 9,000 deaths and two million lost jobs to take a giant big-government gamble.
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