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Spend on social infrastructure, not jets and prisons
Thursday, March 17th, 2011
March 15, 2011
If Canada’s economic recovery is really so “fragile” the federal government shouldn’t be spending billions of dollars on fighter jets, prisons and corporate tax cuts, [the CCPA] said this week as it released its alternative to the upcoming federal budget… the money going to corporate tax cuts could be better put into “social infrastructure,” such as national childcare and pharmacare plans… jobs can be created by infrastructure spending, as well as in the health and education sectors… [including] $1 billion to address First Nations housing and water-infrastructure needs.
Tags: budget, child care, Health, ideology, Indigenous, poverty, standard of living
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