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William Watson: Enough with the numerical targets already!

The Carney Liberals want to double this or triple that by 2030 or 2035 or 2050. A policy of calculating benefits and costs would be better

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Matthew Lau wrote in FP Comment recently about the plethora of national plans and strategies the Carney government has been introducing — three last week alone, for AI, forestry and eye care (this last spelling out Ottawa’s vision for vision, a federal jurisdiction the Constitution does not actually mention).

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My own bugbear is the government’s passion for numerical........

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