If you hear the word “catalyze” used to describe an action, what comes to mind? How about “stranded assets,” the “sovereign cloud,” or a “hinge moment in history”?

You got it. These are some of the Prime Minister’s favourite ingredients in his verbal salad. He is doing his best to replace the Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition as Canada’s word master. Everything is over-the-top urgent — “transformative,” “supercharged,” requiring “resilience, responsibility and… humility.”

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His word salad promises to “secure Canada’s sovereignty” by “stranding our assets” and adding an “industrial carbon tax” to meet our “trajectory to net zero by 2050” (up 20 years from 2030). We are going to “Build Baby Build,” and one of the first things on our list is a massive investment in

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