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No Conspiracy Behind Freeland’s ‘Pre-Loaded Stimulus’ Approach, But Her Resort to Keynesianism Still Unsettling

No Conspiracy Behind Freeland’s ‘Pre-Loaded Stimulus’ Approach, But Her Resort to Keynesianism Still Unsettling
Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland responds to a question after delivering the 2020 fiscal update in the House of Commons on Nov. 30, 2020. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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Is Chrystia Freeland coming for your stuff? Canada’s finance minister raised eyebrows by following up her insanely profligate fall “fiscal update” with cheery musings about prying loose the savings of the middle class, if not those who’d be working hard to join it absent the lockdown. But as usual we should seek not dark conspiratorial intent but coherent and plausible meaning in her unsettling comments.

John Robson
John Robson
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John Robson is a documentary filmmaker, National Post columnist, senior fellow at the Aristotle Foundation, contributing editor to the Dorchester Review, and executive director of the Climate Discussion Nexus. His most recent documentary is “The Environment: A True Story.”
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