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Natasha Tusikov and Blayne Haggart

Natasha Tusikov is assistant professor in the Department of Social Science at York University and Blayne Haggart is associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Brock University. 

Failure to invest in government capacity is a luxury we can’t afford

The small-government era began with the view, imported from the United States and the United Kingdom, that government itself was the problem. Forty years later, having weathered a global pandemic, a technological revolution and the rewiring of the international system, it’s increasingly obvious that government isn’t the problem, it’s part of the solution. But only if it has the tools to do the job. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
The small-government era began with the view, imported from the United States and the United Kingdom, that government itself was the problem. Forty years later, having weathered a global pandemic, a technological revolution and the rewiring of the international system, it’s increasingly obvious that government isn’t the problem, it’s part of the solution. But only if it has the tools to do the job. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
The small-government era began with the view, imported from the United States and the United Kingdom, that government itself was the problem. Forty years later, having weathered a global pandemic, a technological revolution and the rewiring of the international system, it’s increasingly obvious that government isn’t the problem, it’s part of the solution. But only if it has the tools to do the job. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade
The small-government era began with the view, imported from the United States and the United Kingdom, that government itself was the problem. Forty years later, having weathered a global pandemic, a technological revolution and the rewiring of the international system, it’s increasingly obvious that government isn’t the problem, it’s part of the solution. But only if it has the tools to do the job. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade