Ken Boessenkool and Dan Robertson have spent their lives advising Canadian political leaders.

The economic impact of financial crisis of 2008-2009 still reverberates. The most consequential result of the financial crisis, however, was not economic but political. People blamed the elites for causing the crisis in the first place. Their anger was compounded when those seen to be responsible for the crisis were considered “too big to fail” and received a bailout instead of the punishment many felt they deserved.