CANADA BUILDS™ ANOTHER AD, ANOTHER EXCUSE
Why Ottawa Keeps Selling
Sentiment Instead of
Results by Ben Brooks
A confident government would have no trouble pointing to something built in the lifetime of the people it governs. ” “
T he federal government’s latest “Canada is a nation of builders” ad is not policy. It’s tax-funded lip service — heavy on sentimentality, light on meaningful change. This has become the defining habit of modern Liberal governance: pluck the heartstrings, open the purse strings, avoid the hard work. And nothing exposes that habit more clearly than the ad’s proud proof point: “In the 1950s, Canada built the St. Lawrence Seaway.” That’s the example.
Not the 1990s. Not the 2000s. Not the last decade. Seventy-five years ago.
The St. Lawrence Seaway was a remarkable achievement — but the fact that Ottawa reaches back three-quarters of a century to justify the claim that we are still builders is as sad as it is telling. A serious country with
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