It is as follows: Trudeau has given Ottawa MP Mona Fortier the new cabinet title of “Minister of Middle Class Prosperity,” but no one in the government has yet bothered to define “middle class.” And everyone is laughing at them. Defining the middle class obviously doesn’t matter as much, but since this government seems utterly obsessed with it — and with evidence-based policy! If wealth is a better measure of middle class, well, in 1999, Canadians in the middle net worth quintile were worth an average of $362,000 in 2016 dollars. There is, of course, one very plausible answer: The Liberals’ stated concern with the middle class is really nothing but a branding exercise, and quantifying “the middle class” can only weaken its effect by excluding some people who consider themselves proud members. Pick a bloody definition, Liberals, and put this farce out of its misery.

Source: National Post January 31, 2020 12:00 UTC