Why Trudeau's recovery plan has to go beyond mere slogans and New Deals

Justin Trudeau modified his COVID-19 recovery plan this week. Rather than “bold,” the prime minister said the government’s fall agenda will instead be “ambitious” and “responsible,” which might be the most creative union of contradictory ideas since some politicians fused “progressive” with “conservative” in 1942. The Ottawa commentariat determined that Trudeau was reacting to a backlash against the notion of using the...