Thoughts From the Hill - February Edition

In this month's edition of Outlooks, we mixed things up a little bit for the usual Thoughts From the Hill panel. Given that Brison was the party's finance critic at a time when the budget was - and still is - the biggest issue on the table, we decided to take advantage of that fact and focus solely on his input. After all, there would be a lot to say and there are few enough column inches that we didn't feel it would be doing our readers any favours to have each party give a talking point when Brison had been touring the country, listening to the concerns of Canadians at a series of town hall meetings.

Of course, days after the column was submitted and as it was going to print, the Liberal leader shuffled the shadow cabinet, and Brison was no longer the finance critic. Nevertheless, he was named the head of the party's Advisory Committee on Economic Strategy (essentially trading jobs with MP John McCallum), so he is still one of the party's key spokespeople on economic issues. Brison's official critic portfolio is now international trade.

You can read this month's panel in Outlooks' print edition, or in the online edition, which you can download in .pdf format here. (The panel can be found on page 11).