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Canadian health care better than Obamacare
In Canada, everyone is covered automatically at birth — everybody in, nobody out / … health-care coverage stays with you for your entire life / … you can freely choose your doctors and hospitals and keep them / … the health-care system is funded by income, sales and corporate taxes that, combined, are much lower than what Americans pay in premiums / … there are no complex hospital or doctor bills / … simplicity leads to major savings in administrative costs and overhead.
Tags: disabilities, economy, featured, Health, ideology, participation, privatization, standard of living, tax
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Free trade’s tarnished silver anniversary
The FTA/NAFTA was a big business-driven initiative whose primary purpose was investment deregulation… Contrary to assurances given Canadians prior to the FTA/NAFTA, big business lobbied hard to reduce program spending and taxes. Unemployment insurance, health and education transfers, social assistance and housing programs, etc. were “harmonized downward” toward U.S. levels. Governments cut taxes… it helped weaken the bonds of nationhood embodied in the Canadian social state.
Tags: economy, featured, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization, rights, standard of living, tax
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Ontario’s private-sector gamble is another sucker’s bet
After being burned with ORNGE, eHealth and the gas plant scandal, you might think the Ontario government would shy away from further risky and wasteful private sector misadventures. But instead the government is doubling down. Its fall economic update proposed a major expansion of the latest fad from the world of finance: Alternative Financing and Procurement (AFP), also known as Public-Private Partnerships (P3s).
Tags: budget, ideology, privatization, standard of living, tax
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U.S. firms staunchly resist disclosure of CEO pay ratios
This relatively minor rule… has inspired a major pushback from big corporations. They say the number is difficult to compile, costly to calculate and meaningless for investors – and as a result, they’re seeking to dilute or postpone the requirement… The regulation’s supporters, including pension funds and other socially-minded investors, disagree. They argue disclosing the ratio can help rein in excessive executive pay and put a spotlight on the compensation framework within a single company.
Tags: economy, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization, standard of living
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Ontario Tories caused Hydro mess
For 95 years Hydro’s profits went out to businesses and citizens in the form of low and stable rates and made Ontario into the economic engine of Canada… The deregulation experiment has failed miserably to lower rates in Ontario as we said it would. It is one of the main reasons for our troubles in the manufacturing sector and our ailing economy. Time to reregulate Hydro in the public interest, not keep it for the private few.
Tags: economy, ideology, privatization, standard of living
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Who’s Watching Our Money?
… researchers looked at 30-million “economic actors” around the globe. Their remarkable research found that a group of 147 transnational corporations (TNCs) controlled nearly 40 per cent of the economic value of all TNCs in the world. More shockingly, financial institutions make up 75 per cent of the organizations at the core of this powerful group: what the researchers call a “super entity.
Tags: economy, globalization, ideology, jurisdiction, privatization
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Your Bank’s Not as Safe as You Think
Until now, the big banks have been encouraged to operating in a risky manner because they’ve been able to count on the federal government appropriating taxpayers’ money to bail them out. In future, the banks may be expected to solve their own financial problems. That may be bad news for account holders if the banks come after depositors for the cash to settle their debts.
Tags: economy, privatization, rights, standard of living
Posted in Governance Debates | 1 Comment »
Ontario is finally cracking down on rogue unlicensed daycare operators
… even with passage of this act, high-quality, affordable child care won’t be available to thousands of Ontario families who need it. A bold new investment of provincial and federal money is required, like the $1.1-billion national child-care program recklessly killed by Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Still, Wynne is right to demand higher standards of the child-care operations we have.
Tags: child care, privatization, rights, standard of living
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