The Speech from the Throne is read.
Money for tax cuts;
healthcare;
infrastructure;
the environment;
Indigenous Peoples;
refugees.
Canada is painted in Liberal red.
And the budget, too,
is steadily sailing away from the
black.
(Editor’s note: poet Shai Ben-Shalom, an Israeli-born biologist, examines current events in the Blacklock’s tradition each and every Sunday)
