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This past August the Liberal government prorogued parliament ostensibly due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, they were was also trying to get the WE Charity controversy behind them, without much luck. A consequence of parliament's prorogation was a delay in the 2021 pre-budget consultations. After much politicking, the consultations began again this week.
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Marc, Thank-you for this article. When you look at the various proposals on their own they hold a lot of merit. However, taken as a an amalgamation they come across as a series of seemingly unconnected proposals. The dispersed nature of these demands, in turn, impose or leave a governmental apparatus that is forced to try and pick between competing draws for financial attention. Not only do we know how poor the Government of Canada is in picking winners and losers (or funding continuously those winners that we do create and they then pull the rug out from underneath), it would seem that the paltry amounts doled out in the space strategy two years ago have set a bar under which subsequent investments will need to fall — especially given the state of our national finances and other priorities currently at play in Canada.