He defended his practice of largely avoiding reporter questions on Parliament Hill
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, in Ottawa, received his bivalent COVID-19 booster dose and the seasonal flu shot at a pharmacy, and chaired a meeting of the Incident Response Group on the situation in Haiti.
“The provinces aren’t exactly making a great case for themselves. Nevertheless, the country’s health care system is in a bad way, marked by such things as a shortages of nurses and decades of deliberate underinvestment in hospital capacity. The big fix is going to require major reform, which nobody wants to talk about, and minor increases in spending – which governments would prefer to focus on.
The U.S. and Canadian economies are in a similar situation and financial markets have given the federal government’s fall economic statement a passing grade. So why is the Canadian dollar trading in the low-70s against the U.S. dollar? This is more than a matter of national pride. While weakness in the dollar may help boost exports, it has also contributed to our inflation problem.
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