Today we have a naming of parts. If you have a minister of middle-class prosperity and a minister of economic development and an entirely separate minister of rural economic development and a minister of workforce development—remember when the workforce was part of the economy? OK, boomer—and a minister of small business and a minister of finance and a minister of industry and a treasury-board president, who’s running the economy?
It’s a trick question, of course. None of them is. Differences among them will be settled at the Block Formerly Known as Langevin, from whence emissaries will be dispatched to inform the eight economic ministers of their opinions. Just as emissaries were dispatched, 14 times, a year ago to inform the attorney general of her opinion on the proper conduct of criminal trials.
A multiply redundant federal cabinet will quickly become a pretext for central control even if that wasn’t the point of building it that way, because none of the title-holders holds enough of the elephant to discern its shape, let alone influence its path. A lot of European countries have a minister of finance, who writes budgets, and a minister of the economy, who here would once have been called the minister of industry. But Justin Trudeau has always preferred a multiplicity of inputs without worrying too much about results, and this does not seem to have much changed.
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O/T.. sorta. Trudeau 2.0. Indeed. If only conservatism in Canada could find someone with the courage and clarity of the Greek PM. A Canada first somebody. If they had have then that person would very likely be PM today. Canadians everywhere outside the GTA would flock to support a promise similar to that of the Greek PM’s. Yes, I do include even Quebec, the only province with its head screwed on straight at least when it comes to illegal invasion of our country by faux refugees, in that support..
Prime Minister Mitsotakis, who heads the centre-right government elected in July, told parliament on Friday that he would hire 400 border guards to patrol Greece’s land border with Turkey and 800 for the country’s many islands.
There is nothing wrong and everything right in his promise to the Greek people. Canada welcomes everybody. Period. If only….
“Welcome in Greece are only those we choose. Those who are not welcomed will be returned,” Prime Minister Mitsotakis said in comments reported by Ekathimerini. “We will permanently shut the door to illegal human traffickers, to those who want to enter although they are not entitled to asylum.”