John Robson: More Government Bungling on the Daycare and Pharmacare Files

A child plays on a play structure as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau talks to parents at the YMWCA daycare in Winnipeg about the federal $10-a-day child care plan for Manitoba, on March 3, 2023. The Canadian Press/John Woods

Commentary

It would take exceptional mental gymnastics to declare that what the under-stretched, over-funded Canadian government really needs now is expensive new social-engineering projects. So here we go. First, universal cheap daycare and, when it proves “a highly expensive and predictable” disaster, as the National Post just editorialized, you move on to pharmacare.