Posts Tagged ‘privatization’
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Harper’s economic record the worst in Canada’s postwar history
In short, the Conservatives’ austere, business-led strategy has produced stagnation for the economy, and incredible uncertainty for Canadians. Families worry rightly that the traditional dream of shared prosperity is slipping away from them, and from their children… The Conservative trickle-down vision, focused on enriching corporations and the investors who own them, has failed bitterly. We need an alternative vision, both hopeful and pragmatic…
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Make health care an election issue
When provinces deliver good health care, they take the credit; when they are unable to do so, they blame Ottawa for not transferring them enough money. Promises not only come with a price tag, but siphon money from other priorities, all without delivering political payback… this crisis will take 20 years to fully hit us. Like a tsunami, it still looks small while it’s on the horizon…
Tags: budget, disabilities, Health, ideology, mental Health, privatization, tax
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Conservative Party’s taste for indebted households strains economic future
Canada is in the group of countries with the largest increases in the debt-GDP ratios since 2006 in the 30-to-40 per cent range and a Canadian increase 50 per cent higher than that of the U.S… we [demonstrate]… a reluctance to sensibly use fiscal policy for economic stabilization and instead let private savings flow to already stretched and highly indebted households that puts the health of the Canadian economy, and thus our economic future, at risk.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, globalization, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Canadians ‘Ripped Off’ by Drug Costs? No Kidding
… everything this government does reveals it couldn’t care less about whether or not “Canadians” are being ripped off… the corporate rights agreement still being negotiated with the European Union…. (CETA)… will not only increase drug costs to individual Canadians by between $850 million and $1.645 billion (an increase of between seven and 13 per cent) annually, it will give giant pharmaceutical companies even more power to delay the entry of cheaper generic drugs onto the market… The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)… would give even more powers to drug companies.
Tags: budget, Health, ideology, Indigenous, mental Health, pharmaceutical, privatization
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Privatized city cuts public adrift
… the public realm in all its forms is under attack. An alignment of factors — civic impoverishment, widespread cynicism and the politics of conservatism — has made the abandonment of these shared goods and services seem desirable. Having allowed the public realm to fall into disrepair, if not disrepute, we would rather sell it off than pay the price of rehabilitation. And because taxes are toxic, the public sector’s hands are tied. Privatization has become the new mantra.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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A referendum on Stephen Harper and his meaner Canada
Harper’s virtues… can be plainly seen in his successful attempt to roll back the federal government’s capacity to use its spending power to influence the lives of Canadians… His strategy as prime minister is to starve the federal government of resources by limiting spending, delivering benefits through the tax system rather than through programs, and cutting taxes wherever he could. Weaken the federal government enough fiscally and no future prime minister could ever again contemplate building a Just Society.
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living, tax
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The neocon politics of cynicism and despair
Amongst the most persistent and egregious oft-repeated myths perpetrated by neocons is the one that they are the best stewards of the economy and that cutting taxes is the way to improve the financial health of Canada. The lion’s share of these tax cuts always go to the private sector and the wealthy while the messaging is tax cuts for the middle class… A second mantra of neocons is cutting the wasteful cost of government. This is how tax cuts are paid for and is code for their dedicated bias towards the dismantling of government, social programs and social opposition to Conservative policies…
Tags: budget, economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Canadian business innovation has faded despite federal cash
The memo explores the possible reasons why Canadian firms appear to have shunned innovation… Canadian companies rely more on “imitation than on innovation” and are less likely to collaborate in R&D with public institutions than firms in other G7 countries… a potential solution… [is that] Canada consider following leading countries by offering more direct measures to promote innovation, rather than continuing to rely heavily on indirect methods, such as tax credits.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Mellower NDP sets its course, free of the drag of socialism
… socialist terminology is no longer on the party books. Mr. Mulcair’s policies, such as an increased minimum wage, child care, corporate tax increases, cap-and-trade, are sufficient… The policies give the New Democrats left-side girth, but they’re a far cry from the “smash capitalism” days, from knee-jerk, anti-U.S. sentiment, from being in the lock of labour, of high taxes and state planners… the mellowing out is finally paying off… polling numbers show them within reach of the top rung.
Tags: budget, economy, featured, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living, tax
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