“We will jeopardize or lose federal funding if we do not approve the full strategy,” Gondek warned councillors. “We must act now.”There’s nothing novel about the Liberals defending a policy position like the Soviets defended Stalingrad, then abandoning it overnight in favour of the opposite position — and then immediately attacking anyone so stupid or ignorant as to still support the previous policy.
in which he defended municipalities’ objectively insufficient record on getting out of the way of new homes.Article content to blame for the problem. Everybody knows this. Secondly, many strategy-minded observers noticed that this was essentially an invitation to Canadians to blame the federal government for the problem. It seems many Canadians have accepted.for the Liberals: On Wednesday the Conservatives quite rightly took note of something Liberal MP Arielle Kayabaga said at the Liberals’ caucus retreat in London, Ont. “I’m 32 years old, I’m a member of Parliament.
Accusations of being “out of touch” are standard in politics, but the Liberals’ recent communications efforts evince a level of obliviousness I recall rarely seeing before. The housing crisis doesn’t just threaten the Liberal government, but the whole Liberal conception of Canada — not least as a place where “more” is always the answer to immigration. It also threatens the whole Conservative conception of Canada, of course, which really isn’t all that different from the Liberal one.