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Author: Christina Spencer, Ottawa Citizen
Publication Date: August 23, 2024 - 11:14
Lau: Canada's federal public service expanding rapidly at your expense
August 23, 2024
The increased bureaucratization and socialization of Canada’s economy since 2015 is well illustrated by the Treasury Board of Canada secretariat’s new statistics on the federal public service. All across the economy there’s massive bureaucratic expansion to fulfil political demands while the private sector, which fulfils consumer demands for goods and services, is crowded out and its relative importance reduced. Read More
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HUNTSVILLE, ALA. —The housing crisis is nothing if not complex, the result of decades of misaligned and dead-wrong policies. Reading an advanced copy of Ottawa-based housing policy expert Carolyn Whitzman’s upcoming book, Home Truths: Fixing Canada’s Housing Crisis, you’d be forgiven for feeling a little daunted by the enormity of the task. But one thing is certain: If we don’t build more housing quickly, we won’t solve the problem. Read More
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