Commentary Editor’s note: This is the second in a series examining the economic platform of each party ahead of the 2021 federal election. The first can be read here. We get it: electoral campaigning entails bright, shiny objects to parade in front of sound-bite-driven media. However, the extent to which the Conservative Party of Canada is dangling gimmicks before voters threatens to undermine any meaningful economic recovery. Some of these offers in the “recovery plan,” such as a sales tax holiday for December, are silly but temporary and relatively harmless. Others, such as rewriting bankruptcy laws, are serious and would harm Canada’s ability to attract investment and grow its productivity. To their credit, the Conservatives have offered their plan in great detail. Right from the campaign outset, any voter could peruse it for himself. As one gets into the weeds, though, coherence is evasive. Readers with an economics lens will find themselves split, …