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Maybe equalization is working after all
In today’s Globe and Mail, Murray Campbell says that the federal govt’s policy of redistributing tax revenues to the ‘have-not’ provinces is not working (subscription req’d). That may be, but the evidence he provides isn’t particularly convincing. For example, …Ontario’s gross domestic product per capita has dropped to 103 per cent of the national average, […]
Dumbest comment on the Bernanke nomination so far…
…comes to us courtesy of the National Post’s Terence Corcoran. After mentioning the ‘massive’ US trade deficit and ‘the current fashionable concerns about global financial imbalances’, he drops the following clanger: It’s not good enough to stay the course: But what’s to be done about it? In a final sentence, he seemed to be advocating […]
Shaking the Booga-Wooga Stick that is NAFTA’s Chapter 11
In today’s Globe and Mail, Jim Stanford is upset at how the BC govt handled their teachers’ strike: legislation, fines, etc. This is of course a defensible and understandable position for someone who works for a union, but he lets his indignation get the better of him when he reaches for the NAFTA Chapter 11 […]
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