Susan Delacourt: Stephen Harper wasn’t obsessed with data. Here’s why Justin Trudeau is
Justin Trudeau appears at the head of a classroom, scribbling on a whiteboard all the steps in creating the annual budget.
I talked to a member of Trudeau’s team deeply involved in this year’s budget preparation, who said he would prefer to speak on background. He said he hadn’t noticed just how much data-gathering had figured into the government’s planning until we drew it to his attention, “but yeah, there is a lot.” This whole fixation on data is, first and foremost, a big product of the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in the realm of health care. Trudeau has talked often about how the government learned in the early days of the pandemic just how little information it had at its fingertips.
“We weren’t as effective as we could have been at deploying scarce resources, because we just didn’t have the picture that we needed to have.” “It is shocking what we inherited in departments like industry, and others, in terms of the investments that had not been made in understanding huge swaths of the economy,” the adviser said.
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