Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole doesn’t believe the budget will balance itself, but he has faith that his economic plan will eliminate the federal deficit within 10 years if he becomes Canada’s next prime minister.
Economics
Billboard campaign to highlight ballooning trillion-dollar federal debt
A campaign by the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF) hopes to make Canadians aware of how much debt the Liberal government has accrued on their behalf.
The cross-country initiative will include physical billboards and social media ads that seek to warn Canadians about the country’s growing debt.
Top Covid Vaccine Maker Goes From Financial Loss To $4 Billion Profit
“How do I expose thee–let me count the ways.”
Many will attribute this variation on words to the pen of William Shakespeare, when in fact the source is British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
Either way, it illustrates a critical phenomenon within contemporary culture: the myriad ways in which the Covid pandemic is manifest within society, along with the obfuscation of these circumstances.
Perhaps most revelant of all is the concept of money. Or rather, the world of corporate profits–as collected by what can be referred to as the “pandemic industry.”
John Ivison: Flat-broke Newfoundland is a cautionary tale for other big spending governments in Canada
Federal government sources concede it is the expired canary in a coalmine where other provinces are already showing signs of gasping for air.
How the right fell out of love with markets
Many of capitalism’s most vocal critics are now found on the American right
In December 2016 I was speaking at a conference in London. Much of the discussion, unsurprisingly, gravitated toward Donald Trump’s recent election as president. It meant, I noted, that an outspoken free-trade skeptic would be in the White House. At that point a bright young French economist turned to me and said, ‘Mon ami, I thought that free trade was a done deal on the right. Apparently, it isn’t.’