Slobbering over Freeland

Vincent J. Curtis

19 Jan 21

RE: Trends that should worry Freeland.  Column by Torstar typist and Ottawa bureacu chief Heather Scofield.  Appeared in today’s Spectator.

When it comes to slobbering journalism, the piece by Heather Scofield on Chrystia Freeland was worthy of a basset hound.

“There’s no doubt Canada desperately needs to see some growth, and Freeland has committed to doing what she can with her fiscal levers to amplify the rebound and using stimulus money of up to $100 billion to rebuild the economy in a way that makes it grow even faster,”  she writes. There’s a triple redundancy in this statement, the two most obvious being stimulus and growing even faster, since that’s what stimulus is supposed to do.  But that $100 bills are doing triple duty since that’s what’s supposed to make the economy recover at all.

Freeland is responsible for “embracing clean technology, cutting emissions, creating one million jobs, investing in the social sector, infrastructure and training, beefing up pandemic support for workers and businesses, helping personal-support workers, enhancing homebuyers’ incentives, and reducing the deficit.”  Is this pretending that Freeland is Wonder Woman 21, or is Scofield sleeping through copy typing a Liberal press release?  Freeland’s just a bloody Finance Minister, how is she supposed to cut emissions, or embrace technology?  If anybody knows how to do all that, call Ottawa, and every other capital in the world; they’d all like to know.

Enough with the slurping and the dripping tongue.  If Freeland had a big ‘C’ for party affiliation, I’m certain Scofield would be treating her like Sarah Palin.

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