It’s Never Been Harder for Governments to Talk to Citizens

Is it time for government to spend more on communicating with the people it governs?

In a survey I recently completed, I asked Canadians whether they knew that the Carney government had committed to cutting 15% of federal spending over the next three years. Roughly half admitted they didn’t. Think about that: one of the most consequential fiscal decisions in a generation that will likely be presented in the federal budget in October, wi…