( The Canadian Press )Wednesday’s budget will be about the middle class and innovation. When a tenured academic turned senior cabinet minister delivers a presentation on the middle class that (a) never defines the term “middle class”; (b) never depicts the effects of the government’s actions to date on the plight of the middle class, however you want to define it; (c) offers no hint about future efforts to help the middle class — well, that’s a fiasco. So I think we’re going to stay on that message.”When a tenured academic turned senior cabinet minister like Jean-Yves Duclos delivers a presentation on the middle class that never defines the term middle class and offers no hint about future efforts to help the middle class — well, that’s a fiasco, writes Paul Wells. He frequently posts photos of his meetings on Twitter, with the hashtag “#innovation.” That’s how you know there is innovation going on. I have covered four new #innovation policy papers from previous governments since 2000.

Source: thestar March 22, 2017 10:03 UTC