The first days of Parliament in 2024 sounded a lot like the last days of Parliament in 2023. The basic disputes and arguments are by now familiar, even to those who haven’t been paying much attention.
But beneath the back-and-forth over the Liberal government’s carbon tax and the Conservative leader’s agenda, Justin Trudeau and Pierre Poilievre are also duelling over very different theories of change.
Trudeau used the theme of “change” to begin his remarks to a Liberal gathering just before Christmas last year. Canadians, he said, are living through a “period where we’re all experiencing a lot of change.”
“Change in interest rates. Change
