Diane Francis: With Bill Morneau turfed, there are no adults left in the room — which is terrifying given Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s autocratic proclivity.
This week, Trudeau, in a move that would make Hungarian Prime Minister Victor Orban proud, jettisoned his finance minister to distract from a scandal, and then shuttered Parliament for a month to halt investigations into his government’s corrupt practices. He then announced that a cabinet retreat would be held to chart Canada’s economic course by Sept. 23, which, given his inept crew, foretells serious trouble for the Canadian economy.
A greater threat is the potential adoption of the loopy recommendations put forth this summer by Trudeau’s Task Force for a Resilient Recovery. It was created as a vehicle to further the anti-business agenda of Trudeau’s former chief of staff, Gerald Butts, who left his post for helping push out the attorney general to help SNC-Lavalin.
Now he’s back in business with a hand-picked task force that is a grab-bag of professional Liberals, green activists, former civil servants and self-described social entrepreneurs whose business models are all about getting grants and subsidies. Not a single business person was included on the list of task force members that I saw a few months ago.
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