Peter Stockland on Employment Minister Jason Kenney's message at the Cardus Building Meaning roundtable.

By Peter Stockland November 21, 2014

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It’s an uncontroversial thing when Employment Minister Jason Kenney says he believes work is a good thing.

Yet it feels like a curiously controversial thing when the minister offers his related belief that employers, trade unions and other non-government actors actually have a responsibility to open doors to work for Canadians.

Perhaps its a measure of our skewed State-citizen relations. Maybe we are just a people sunk deep in the need for blinding statements of the obvious. Whatever the reason, it was clearly the off-message message Kenney felt needed to be delivered in his address yesterday at the Cardus Building Meaning roundtable in Ottawa.

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