Joe Oliver: Bad policies, not poor messaging, will sink the Liberals

Last week, columnist Kimberley Strassel wrote in the Wall Street Journal that the Democratic Party’s central problem is, not Joe Biden’s deteriorating cognition, but its policies. The very same day, our own Prime Minister’s Office criticized Deputy PM and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland for poor economic messaging, a stunning public rebuke of the second most important person in the government and one of her boss’ most vocal loyalists. Apparently, Liberals’ fiscal ineptitude was not a major contributor to their staggering by-election loss in the formerly safe riding of Toronto-St. Paul’s. Read More