Broad, multi-party support for the Liberal child care legislation may bode well for the program’s durability. And it can also be read as an implicit endorsement of the Trudeau government’s particular — and muscular —use of the federal spending power.
I definitely agree. Judges shouldn’t be activists, trying to shape laws to fit their ideology, but that’s literally what law makers are elected to do.
I have nothing against the federal government offering provinces cash to provide social programs. As the article says, it puts provincial leaders on the spot. They either accept the money and put the program in place or they tell their voters why they won’t be providing a service to the public even if it won’t cost anything.