The budget’s copycat approach puts Canada’s economic future in the hands of U.S. policy-makers and lobbyists

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Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland delivers the federal budget in the House of Commons, in Ottawa, on March 28.Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press Whatever you want to call the $21-billion that the federal budget projects Ottawa will dole out over five years in “clean” energy and manufacturing subsidies – ballooning to $80-billion by 2034 – please do not call it an industrial policy. That would be giving too much credit to a government that has again shown that it does not grasp the concept. Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland created heightened expectations when, in her November fall economic statement,...