Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland's fiscal update was very much a stay-the-course document and its contents are hard to attack politically. But on inflation, the government remains vulnerable.
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Kevin Page, president and CEO at the Institute of Fiscal Studies and Democracy, joined Power & Politics Tuesday to break down what is behind the rising cost of living in Canada and what can be done about it.
"There is a real gap between the government's aspiration and the performance," Allan Rock, former Canadian ambassador to the UN, told Power & Politics Tuesday of the federal government's efforts to resettle Afghan refugees. Rock joined former parliamentarians and humanitarian groups in calling on Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to do more to address outstanding issues with the refugee resettlement program.