Yet Justin Trudeau is likely to search in vain for such common purpose at the First Ministers’ Meeting he is hosting Friday in Montreal. The 2015 meeting was another era, when the provincial premiers included six Liberals and two New Democrats. Trudeau wants to use the occasion of his fourth First Ministers’ Meeting to roll out Morneau to recite the Liberal government’s greatest hits on unemployment and growth rates. But this is an unusually cantankerous bunch of premiers, who feel the human cost of the Trudeau government’s policies is not registering in Ottawa. This would appear to be a good time for Trudeau to tone down the finger-wagging and dial up the empathy.

Source: National Post December 06, 2018 23:26 UTC