Lorrie Goldstein;
When the history of the COVID-19 pandemic is written, it should include a chapter about how Prime Minister Justin Trudeau engineered “The Great Reset” of the role government plays in our lives, without even bringing in a budget.
How it wasn’t done in secret, but out in the open.
How Trudeau announced hundreds of billions of dollars in new government spending that transformed Canada into a permanent, deficit-ridden, nanny state, not in Parliament — but at the bottom of the stairs to his house.
How Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, while describing the challenge facing Canadians as a combination of Second World War and the Great Depression, delivered a vague “economic update” about it on Monday— details to come.
Other than that this year’s deficit will be almost $400 billion, with the government ready to spend up to $100 billion more over the next three years on a hoped-for economic recovery starting this spring, assuming the vaccines work.
Flashback: Our finance minister — and her husband — needed her dad to cosign her mortgage.
Her BA is in Russian lit and history. Her MA is in Slavonic studies. She worked as a journalist stringer in Ukraine, and afterwards in London and Moscow. Then to the Globe and Mail and Reuters. Her major publication was a book called “Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super-Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else”, a 2013 bestseller. Then she ran for Parliament.
h/t Jojodogfacedboy
