Campbell Clark/The Globe and Mail: But this is a fund seeded with $25-billion in borrowed money, a debt that will be tacked on to the liabilities of those future taxpayers. If it does make money on its nation-building mission, the Canada Strong Fund will need to make a reasonable return over and above the cost of the interest on that money to benefit the country’s kids.
For now, however, it is a vehicle to push money into Canadian projects at a time when investors might be scared off by trade-war uncertainty…