It’s good to dunk on Ivison but what's being missed is he’s merely a goofy right-wing exponent of the Canadian establishment's outlook: anxious to crush our rising expectations for governments post-pandemic to actually do more for our well-being..[THREAD]
https://twitter.com/natnewswatch/status/1255129153818570752
Here’s the Liberal gov's budget officer spelling out the elite fear that post-pandemic, it may be politically hard to rollback new economic assistance – what he calls “entitlements," an old establishment codeword for “the rabble expecting and getting more than they deserve.” 
In their own effort to batter the expectations of Canadians and prime us for a post-pandemic attack on public services, the Conservative party and its network of right-wing think tanks and pundits are not exactly... subtle.
https://twitter.com/CPC_HQ/status/1254047510932250626
Here’s Andrew Coyne, more sophisticated at diminishing expectations, writing how “the government will need a strategy to exit from the economy,” to return spending to “normal principles” - as if pre-pandemic life was working for most and not riven with horrible inequalities.
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