Liberals still lacking accountability measures as they throw money at pandemic

You get the sense that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government is at least a little sensitive about the amount of money that it’s spending to fight the COVID-19 crisis. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland’s budget update on Nov. 30 appeared to justify the unprecedented spending by noting that Canada suffered the “fourth-largest” decline in gross domestic product among the G7 legacy economic powers. That makes Canada the...