Edward Dodd

Harper’s economic reforms bring about the “dark side of excellence”

  By Edward Dodd — The Carillon (CUP) Photo by Alex Smyth — The Fulcrum (CUP) Twenty-four years ago, Pierre Trudeau warned that for too long, Canada had “experimented with the dark side of excellence.” Rather than building the “just society” Trudeau dreamed of, in which the government ensured that every Canadian was treated fairly, Canada had begun to put economic competitiveness on the world stage ahead of the basic needs of its own people. Liberal senator Jack Austin characterized this dark side as “the loss of tolerance, the absence of compassion, and the downgrading of fairness.” To Austin, there was…

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