It's bad enough having a federal government whose reaction to social problems is to tell the provinces, "No, you go first in dealing with them. I insist." But it's much worse having a provincial government whose response is to refuse to do anything more than copy what the federal government is doing.
Hence today's column, on how the Saskatchewan Party is mirroring the federal Cons' reliance on boutique tax credits over far more effective uses of public money.
For more on how the strategy has been panned at the federal level, see Jeffrey Simpson's latest.
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