Cynically, I suspected that the same Liberals who campaigned against national childcare in 2015 and then suddenly rediscovered the issue just in time to campaign on it in 2021 may have been playing politics with no sincere intentions of actually implementing a program. Even just as a straight capitalist economic investment, it pays so much more dividends than tripling military spending (much less tax cuts for tech giants).
As one of the worst per capita polluters on earth, omitting public climate infrastructure (like electric passenger rail) from these discussions ALWAYS feels like a mistake.
Thank you - Carney's approach certainly benefits elites more than most Canadians. Building ports, housing projects or LNG terminals will take time to boost the economy. However, 1.6 million Canadians suffer unemployment today, with thousands of additional public service jobs now targeted for elimination.
Our political class ignores the high cost of wasting our employable human talent - increased stress and sickness, more household breakdowns, additional crime and alcoholism, the degradation of workforce skills, and significant lost economic output.
In addition to accelerated infrastructure employing our most skilled workers, the federal government should ensure hiring off the bottom by means of a Job Guarantee program (including training) delivered through lower levels of government and non-profit community groups in areas such as helping the sick and aged, youth recreation and education, public arts and culture, and environmental stewardship.
After Argentina's 2001 fiscal crisis, their national government created 2 million public jobs specifically for impoverished heads of households, demonstrating that such programs can introduced quickly, and that useful tasks can be performed even by the least skilled or educated citizens.
Carney's lop-sided budget must be revised to ensure adequate funds go directly to those Canadians who desperately want to work and contribute to society, and not just to big corporate contractors profiting from long-term projects.
Great article! I totally support this government investment circular economy rationale. It works for citizens.
Cynically, I suspected that the same Liberals who campaigned against national childcare in 2015 and then suddenly rediscovered the issue just in time to campaign on it in 2021 may have been playing politics with no sincere intentions of actually implementing a program. Even just as a straight capitalist economic investment, it pays so much more dividends than tripling military spending (much less tax cuts for tech giants).
As one of the worst per capita polluters on earth, omitting public climate infrastructure (like electric passenger rail) from these discussions ALWAYS feels like a mistake.
Thank you - Carney's approach certainly benefits elites more than most Canadians. Building ports, housing projects or LNG terminals will take time to boost the economy. However, 1.6 million Canadians suffer unemployment today, with thousands of additional public service jobs now targeted for elimination.
Our political class ignores the high cost of wasting our employable human talent - increased stress and sickness, more household breakdowns, additional crime and alcoholism, the degradation of workforce skills, and significant lost economic output.
In addition to accelerated infrastructure employing our most skilled workers, the federal government should ensure hiring off the bottom by means of a Job Guarantee program (including training) delivered through lower levels of government and non-profit community groups in areas such as helping the sick and aged, youth recreation and education, public arts and culture, and environmental stewardship.
After Argentina's 2001 fiscal crisis, their national government created 2 million public jobs specifically for impoverished heads of households, demonstrating that such programs can introduced quickly, and that useful tasks can be performed even by the least skilled or educated citizens.
Carney's lop-sided budget must be revised to ensure adequate funds go directly to those Canadians who desperately want to work and contribute to society, and not just to big corporate contractors profiting from long-term projects.