Rob Gillezeau
@robgillezeau
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Assistant Professor of Economics at @UofT . Economic historian and policymaker. Views are my own.
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These two jokers can be a handful, but I'm so grateful for them each and everyday. A huge thank you to their educators, therapy teams, friends, and family for supporting them as they carve out their path in this world.
#WorldAutismAwarenessDay
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If the carbon tax really does end up going down and politicians genuinely care about minimizing costs on individuals then we're pretty much giving up the fight on climate. The entire point of a carbon tax is that it is the single lowest cost way to reduce emissions.
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At the end of the day, Canada's "new relationship" with Indigenous peoples sure looks a lot like the old one.
#Wetsuweten
#Tyendinaga
WATCH: Police move in on rail blockade near Belleville, Ont.
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Prior to COVID-19, I was supposed to be presenting some early stage research this weekend at the
@ClioSociety
conference on the the impact of police bargaining rights on killings of civilians by race. I don't normally discuss early stage research, but it feels appropriate today.
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This is an outrageously bad idea that is completely inconsistent with progressive values. As a social democrat, I'm embarrassed that folks in Ottawa thought this idea was even worth trial ballooning.
Singh signals NDP plan to oppose carbon tax, says it puts burden on ‘backs of working people’
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Maybe it's just that I haven't watched CBC political coverage in a long time, but they are really struggling with economic analysis of the budget, particularly on the housing pieces. Everything is framed up as CPC vs. LPC talking points rather than focusing on content.
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Rather, and with the caveat that this is very early work, it looks like collective bargaining rights are being used to protect the ability of officers to discriminate in the disproportionate use of force against the non-white population.
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This letter is enormously worrying. It's not only damaging to a key national institution, but its content suggests our provincial government is economically illiterate.
#onpoli
Yesterday, I wrote to the Governor of the Bank of Canada echoing Premier
@Dave_Eby
’s call to stop raising interest rates. Ontario families and businesses are struggling to make ends meet and cannot afford the crushing costs brought about by repeated interest rate hikes.
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This is a horrendous result, particularly as an active trade unionist myself. What's the takeaway? Police accountability matters and employers, in this case local and regional governments, have failed to bargain in a manner that protects public safety.
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What does change? We find a substantial increase in police killings of civilians over the medium to long run (likely after unions are established) with an additional 0.026 to 0.029 civilians killed in a county each year of whom the overwhelming majority are non-white.
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It's remarkable just how employer-captured the federal government's policy agenda is. It's hard to think of any other reason that they would be putting forward a policy path that is explicitly designed to push down wages and, additionally, exacerbate the housing crisis.
#Breaking
: Canada plans new temporary foreign workers program to give ‘trusted’ employers quicker access
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I'm honestly pretty proud of my profession today seeing how quickly the signees have come in for this letter. As economists, we know that if we want to tackle climate change, carbon pricing is by far the best tool for the job.
An Open Letter from Economists on Canadian Carbon Pricing
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Folks, some professional and personal news! I’m thrilled to announce that our family will be moving back east to Toronto this summer where I’ll be joining
@UofT
as an Assistant Professor of Economic Analysis and Policy at
@UTSCmgmt
and
@RotmanSchool
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Dear
@globeandmail
, you're doing this wrong. We should collectively be angry with the racist pitch Bloc pitch to voters.
Instead of recognizing this, you're relying on the angry person of colour trope, which is particularly awful here as Singh's comments are extremely measured.
Bloc Québécois angers Jagmeet Singh by urging Quebeckers to elect MPs ‘who resemble you’
@GlobePolitics
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This is an awful policy change from the federal government that will raise home prices and, on net, transfer wealth from younger Canadians and newcomers to older, high wealth Canadians. It runs directly counter to the budget's theme of promoting intergenerational fairness.
Chrystia Freeland announced this morning that starting Aug. 1, first-time homebuyers can have 30-year insured mortgage amortizations if they're buying a newly built home. Currently it's 25 years. (There's no news release yet from the finance department on this)
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Several of the reasonable Conservatives I know are in the Poilievre camp, largely under the the assumption that this is an act and the crazy can be pulled back in after he wins the leadership. I'm not so sure that's going to be possible.
As I told Dr. Peterson, vaccine mandates are not medical science, they are political science.
Help me end them.
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If access to a union simply shifted the marginal decision for officers to shoot in "risky" situations you would expect to see increases in killings of both whites and non-whites, but that's not what we're finding at all.
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What are we finding so far? The introduction of access to collective bargaining drives a modest decline in policy employment and increase in compensation with no meaningful impacts on total crime, violent crime, property crime or officers killed in the line of duty.
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So far we're not seeing any pivot on housing from the federal government post-cabinet shuffle between this brutal line and the new minister's argument that population growth doesn't impact housing demand / prices. Just brutal policy and political judgement on display.
@PierrePoilievre
@AndreaHorwath
Trudeau says housing is not a federal responsibility but Govt must be part of solutions. He takes another dig at Poilievre for being part of previous govt, that Trudeau says did not do enough. Also takes dig at province for not doing enough on affordable homes.
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I get the politics here, but this is pretty awful tax policy. The main impact of this hugely expensive tax change would be to dramatically inflate both home prices and rents. I'm sure we'd also see lots of tax planning activities designed to exploit this.
NEW -
@JohnRustad4BC
announces a plan to let British Columbians deduct up to $3,000 per month for mortgage and rent payments from their income tax, paying less taxes and potentially generating rebates. Cost: $3.5b. Calls it one of the most significant tax relief ever given.
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This would be consistent with the broad disenfranchisement of African American voters. If the African American population has minimal control over the employer, there's no reason to think that they would enter bargaining with their wellbeing in mind.
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If your neighbour's autistic preschooler is having night terrors / experiencing sensory overload please think twice before sending 4 police officers pounding on their door at 3am. I know it's a big surprise, but that doesn't really help the situation.
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Big news in our household: kiddo's wagon has been found! A huge thank you to Constable Feir and
@vicpdcanada
for recovering it and to so many in
#yyj
for sharing the story, particularly
@Adam_Stirling
and the team at
@cfax1070
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.
@SantaJOno
is having a remarkably bad start to his tenure at
@UMich
. He seems to have pretty fundamentally misread I) the values of the university, Ann Arbor, and Michigan more broadly and II) what it means to bargain with a strong, organizing model union like
@geo3550
.
No graduate student worker should be living in poverty while the University of Michigan sits atop a $17 billion endowment. These 2,500 workers deserve safe working conditions and living wages. The University must bargain a fair contract immediately.
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For the life of me, I don't think I'll ever understand:
i) why our government ramped this program up, and
ii) how conservatives rather than progressives have become the most effective critics of the program
Sean Fraser opened the floodgates for low-wage foreign workers—specifically in Canadian communities with high unemployment rates where our youth can’t get work—so corporations could treat them like “modern slaves” in the words of the UN.
Not to mention we had no housing for
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As a policy wonk who once upon a time helped design the $15-a-day NDP child care plan in 2015, how do I feel about the
#Budget2021
child care proposal today?
Just amazing! Politics is about ideas and helping people, and it's absolutely thrilling to see this program implemented.
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Sigh. This seems like the path that is likely to do as much damage as possible to the public's trust in the electoral process and our broader state institutions.
Holy crap. No public inquiry. Johnston says no evidence government ignored interference, instead analyzes media coverage.
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We look at the roll-out of collective bargaining rights for police officers at the state level from the 1950s to the 1980s, using an event study framework and taking advantage of collective bargaining rights discontinuities for counties at state boundaries.
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I'll leave things there for now. I'll have a formal working paper out this summer and welcome any ideas or comments going forward.
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Well, I suppose I now know a paper that I'll be writing in a couple of years.
Given what the literature says today we should expect this policy change to i) lower officer performance ii) increase formal complaints and iii) increase the use off force.
NEW: Premier Doug Ford says the government will introduce new legislation that would “eliminate the post secondary education requirement to become a police officer” as the province tries to create a “pipeline” of police officers.
#onpoli
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It's brutal seeing our country go down this ugly path. We can only make our politics and our nation worse with this kind of nastiness. I hope that the electeds and senior staff of good conscience push back on this abhorrent behaviour.
Charlie Angus jumps ship rather than face voters after he voted to hike the carbon tax and ban the hunting rifles of Northern Ontarians.
Common sense Conservatives will axe the tax, build the homes, fix the budget, stop the crime—and let you keep your hunting rifle.
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@TravisPrasadCTV
@CTVVancouver
Any sense as to why the officers are facing the pedestrians rather than the trucks? I would have guessed we'd be seeing the reverse.
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I think the new housing minister,
@SeanFraserMP
, is officially a bust with this new talking point that the federal government has no desire to reduce the price of housing.
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This is some top tier journalism from
@VassyKapelos
. We have absolutely no ability to judge whether this plant is, in fact, good news without knowing how large a subsidy government put on the table for the firm.
#cdnpoli
Did the federal gov't have to cut
@VWcanada
a cheque to secure an EV battery manufacturing plant in St. Thomas, Ont.? And if so, how much?
Watch Innovation Minister
@FP_Champagne
's interview with
@VassyKapelos
👇
More at
#ctvpp
#cdnpoli
#onpoli
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This is shameless. The LPC literally ran on and implemented a tax cut to a higher income bracket than the CPC proposal and claimed it was a tax cut for the middle class.
We should expect better from people in public service than this kind of Orwellian nonsense.
Liberal policy helps the middle class and people working hard to join it.
@liberal_party
The Conservatives cut taxes for the wealthy.
#ChooseForward
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I'm thrilled to see
@jjhorgan
double down on $10/day child care, making it the signature policy of his fiscal plan going forward.
A huge cross-section of economists have pointed to child care as being the ideal recovery program. Credit to Horgan for heeding that advice.
#bcpoli
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This is a really beautiful and thoughtful comment from
@PierrePoilievre
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As someone who faced a similar decision and stepped away from a dream government job so that I could be there to raise my daughter, much respect to him for capturing what so many young parents go through.
@PierrePoilievre
.
@PierrePoilievre
said he wrote 2 letters to his daughter — one telling her why he entered the race and one telling her why he didn’t. “The letter that I wrote for her that indicated my decision not to run was the better one... one day I hope she reads it and I hope she agrees.”
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This is state enforced discrimination and truly abhorrent. Federal politicians need to forget their narrow, political self-interest and use every tool at their disposal to put an end to this state-based racism.
NEW: Teacher removed from a Chelsea, Que. elementary classroom for wearing a hijab
#ottnews
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This clearly articulates the mindset that has dominated housing and taxation policy over the last two decades and resulted in the housing crisis we're in today. Any policymaker who is serious about the housing crisis knows that prices need to come down.
Trudeau says real estate needs to be more affordable, but lowering home prices would put retirement plans at risk
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British Columbia's Home Owner Grant has got to be one of the single worst pieces of public policy in Canada. It both inflates property values and regressively transfers income with roughly a billion dollar price tag.
#bcpoli
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@globeandmail
@Globe_Sports
Just dropping in to note my extreme disappointment in the Globe's writing on issues of race.
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Now that we've got the housing platforms from the three major parties, bravo to the CPC policy team on putting together arguably the strongest net offer (even with the Liberals having the last mover advantage and re-upping many ideas advanced in other offers).
#cdnpoli
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I don't know how anyone can look at the housing market today in Canada and say that we really need are more subsidies for homeowners.
#cdnpoli
NEW: Liberals are promising to increase GIS by $500/year, double the home accessibility tax credit and introduce a new tax credit for multigenerational home renovations.
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JWR is a modern day political folk hero. Her testimony was one of the rare moments in Canadian politics that I felt truly proud, particularly as a Métis, and her story is one that I will share with my daughter to teach her about honour, dignity, and public service.
I have just been informed by the Prime Minister of Canada that I am removed from the Liberal caucus and as the confirmed Vancouver Granville candidate for the Liberal Party of Canada in the 2019 federal election. More to come...
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It's an embarrassment that this debate is happening during the 9-5 work day for British Columbians.
What is the point of having a publicly funded Leaders' Debates Commission if it won't ensure that
#leadersdebate2019
occurs at a time that doesn't shut out an entire region?
@RosieBarton
The English debate will run 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. ET tonight (Monday) — here’s how to watch with CBC:
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This kind of thing is so small, but says so much about a a politician's character. Frankly, this is exactly the kind of person that the country should want nowhere near the cabinet table.
#cdnpoli
Calgary Liberal MP caught on video removing rival's flyer should face consequences, say Tory rival, resident | CBC News
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If you're reporting on
#WetsuwetenStrong
and simply framing the situation as a pipeline dispute you're missing the point. The core issue is Indigenous sovereignty over their unceded lands.
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.
@SamMontgo
and I are excited to introduce Martha Jeannette Montgomery Gillezeau. MJ came into this world on Saturday, May 12th at 9:35pm weighing 7 pounds and 8 ounces.
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Exciting news in our household!
#MJtheKid
will be a big sibling effective January 2021 (cc:
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The fact that these were viewed as topline measures worth a full event from the Prime Minister is a pretty brutal signal on what we should expect from the government on housing policy in the federal budget.
Here is what Trudeau is announcing today in Vancouver on boosting rights for renters. This is the first of what I expect will be several housing announcements before the budget, largely aimed at young voters.
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I'm halfway through
#Budget2021
and it's amazing to see a decade of work from progressives bearing fruit. Universal child care, a $15 federal minimum wage, and expanding the Canada Workers Benefit.... if folks put aside cynical politics this could be a Pearson-Douglas moment.
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This is bananas.
The LPC has spent the entire campaign attacking Doug Ford and are now holding a 41k jump in Ontario employment up as evidence of how his agenda is hurting people?
I'm no Doug Ford fan, but the cognitive dissonance here is something.
Another strong, full-time
#jobs
report. Investing in people works. Cutting the things people need does not. Let's keep going.
#ChooseForward
#elxn43
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This is an important take. Poilievre has gone off the deep end and certainly shouldn't be leading any party let alone the country, but owning the housing file may give him a path with access to a whole new universe of voters not usually accessible to the far right.
Incredibly frustrating that Pierre Poilievre is the only politician that has accepted the urgency of the housing crisis.
The rest of the political establishment, left and right, is still at "when we eat the young, should we grill them or fry them?"
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@liberal_party
Bravo on helping to make this problem even worse. It's time to put actual policy solutions ahead of silly demand-boosting policy gimmicks like this.
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@BrandieHarrop
@anniegirl1138
Hi, co-author of the 2015 NDP universal childcare proposal here, which has been a mainstay of NDP platforms ever since. The Liberals campaigned against the idea in 2015, but reversed course in Budget 2021, essentially adopting the proposal put forward by the NDP.
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This is exactly the contrast that the press should be focusing on when comparing the LPC and CPC tax agendas.
The CPC deserves credit for significantly improving the distributional effects of their tax offer vs 2015.
Comparing the
@CPC_HQ
"Universal Tax Cut" to the 2015
@liberal_party
"Middle-Class Tax Cut". The CPC proposal is much better for the "middle-class" it turns out.
#elxn43
#cdnpoli
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Just brutal. There's nothing worse than corruption and cronyism in governance. And, in this case, it's not only going to erode already diminishing trust in government, but also the policy space government needs to tackle the housing crisis.
#onpoli
BREAKING: Developers in Ontario had direct influence over the province’s decision to extract lands from the Greenbelt and received “preferential treatment."
- Directives came from Doug Ford's office
- Owners of the now 15 parcels of land - value will go up $8.3B
- Of the 7,400
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A decade ago, the
@UMich
administration teamed up with Republican legislators to break our union drive by stripping RAs of the right to form a union. Bravo to Michigan Democrats for recognizing that access to free and fair collective bargaining is a right.
Democrats in Michigan Senate pass SB 185 to allow graduate student research assistants be considered public employees, entitling them to collective bargaining rights.
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Our PM literally wore blackface and is still standing as a candidate, but the article referenced here puts the burden on the only candidate of colour to basically go around poking people in the eye on racism. That's not okay.
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@andraydomise
This is literally the paper that (i) made me sure I wanted to be an economist and (ii) convinced me that the causal revolution was a huge opportunity for the left
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Honestly, this is just embarrassing. Toronto has spent two decades slashing taxes, putting pressure on services and driving up property values as a result. Instead of begging Ottawa for a bailout, the city should be getting its own fiscal house in order.
#topoli
NEW: City has launched campaign to enlist residents to pressure the federal government for COVID-19 funding. Includes a webpage and form email that Torontonians can send to their MPs.
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Even if he somehow pulls himself back from the brink or loses the race, he's actively radicalizing a large chunk of the CPC with this anti-science nonsense. You've got to be such a complete narcissist to do this kind of harm to the country in search of a party leadership.
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I'm sure we'll hear from lots of politicians pretending their fancy, new climate offers are better with winners all around, but guess what? That's pretty much never going to be true. The costs are going to be bigger and they're going to be less effective.
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@BenRabidoux
It's the failure to do anything to prepare for those externalities that is so enormously frustrating.
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This really is a huge mistake by Minister Freeland. She should be walking back this statement or making space in the finance chair for a Minister who respects the role of the central bank.
It's inappropriate for the FinMin to publicly express an opinion about an operational decision made by the Bank of Canada
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Sigh. This is such a horrendous use of public funds from two governments that seem more interested in fancy ribbon-cuttings than economic growth, core public services, or the responsible use of government resources.
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You'd think that at some point the federal government would internalize that boosting housing demand is not a helpful response to the housing crisis.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government will have news to announce on mortgages in Canada in the upcoming April 16 budget
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I'm so thrilled to see this joint work with
@DonnFeir
&
@MaggieECJones
live at
@RevEconStudies
. An enormous thank you to the referees and editorial team for their superb guidance throughout the process and their willingness to centre work about Indigenous peoples & communities.
``The slaughter and near-extinction of the bison in the late 19th century negatively impacted the dynamic path of development for the formerly bison-reliant Native American nations.''
From
@DonnFeir
,
@robgillezeau
and
@MaggieECJones
:
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Advice for Liberal staffers and pundits: it's awesome that the feds are finally moving on housing, but don't pretend that you're out in front of this thing. The housing crisis has been the dominant political issue in BC for a decade while Ottawa basically sat on its hands.
Canadians have been clamouring for bold action to address the
#HousingCrisis
and
@SeanFraserMP
is showing he's ready to deliver.
We need all levels of government working to make life affordable for Canadians and I'm thrilled to see the Federal Government leading the charge.
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And the idea that this miniscule policy offer was a PM-appropriate event itself speaks to the feds just totally not understanding the extent of the policy crisis that they, along with municipalities and provinces, have created.
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This is a superb editorial from the
@globeandmail
on carbon pricing. Everyone knows its the best tool for the job. And while Trudeau has fumbled it politically, that doesn't remove the shame that should be felt by federal and provincial politicians piling on for its removal.
Globe editorial: Political hot air has scorched the carbon tax
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This is a really horrendous attack by Liberal twitter.
Guess what? Canadian politicians almost certainly come disproportionately from wealthy households. If we want that to change there's real value in putting your class identity out there.
Time for a new hashtag game:
#ScheerWasSoPoorThat
he had to put mud in his milk to make his friends think it was chocolate.
#cdnpoli
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A point blank question that the PM should probably be asked tomorrow: at what age between 29 and 47 did he stop being a racist and what triggered the change?
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Just abhorrent conduct from a fellow scholar here. This kind of behaviour is an embarrassment to his department, university, and the academy more broadly.
Disagree with folks? Engage in the kind of scholarly debate that is central to our job as academics.
The proponents of the carbon tax, including Trevor Tombe, Jennifer Winter, Andrew Leach, Chris Ragan, and the federally funded Climate Change Institute, need to step aside to allow for a proper debate on carbon pricing. The current propaganda has been extremely frustrating.
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Sure, the costs might be less salient or perhaps they will fall on a different subset of people, but they sure aren't going to be smaller than the costs associated with carbon pricing.
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This is an enormous event for Singh in Victoria. The fam and I are in the overflow hall with a couple hundred people who didn't make it into the main room!
Huge overflow crowd in Victoria
#yyj
for Jagmeet Singh and South Island
#NDP
candidates!
#elxn43
#UpRiSingh
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This American carve-out feels like a huge mistake that is likely about pressure from the US administration rather than good policy.
“We will be denying entry to Canada to people who are not Canadian citizens or permanent residents,” said
@JustinTrudeau
. “Some designated exceptions including for air crews, diplomats, immediate family members of Canadian citizens and, at this time, U.S. citizens.”
#cdnpoli
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For those who don't track Victoria politics, this extremely important housing policy just went down in a 5-4 vote.
The political lesson for other cities is that the right is rapidly turning against market tools and the NIMBY "far left" will happily align with them.
The Canadian city with a plan to – finally – build more ‘missing middle’ housing
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British Columbia launched the Affordable Child Care Benefit in 2018 with an eligibility threshold of $111,000 and a maximum monthly benefit roughly twice as large as Alberta's.
I'm not sure how a ministerial chief of staff in children's services could not be aware of that.
Our subsidy threshold is $75,000 - the most generous in Canada.
But I’d love to know where your money tree is planted.
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@Sflecce
@fordnation
You folks should recognize that not only are you damaging our country's institutions, but in the process you're actually pushing inflation higher.
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Wild that Ontario went from challenging BC for the housing policy crown to one of the worst NIMBY governments in the country so quickly. I still wonder what drove the pivot: was it a response to the Greenbelt scandal, municipal pushback on DCs, or just the the change in Minister?
NEW: Ontario Housing Minister
@PaulCalandra
’s spox on today’s housing announcement says Ont. open to collaborating with feds, “However, we know that local municipalities know their communities best and don't believe in forcing them to build where it doesn’t make sense.”
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It's great to see
@theJagmeetSingh
rolling out some serious policy well in advance of the campaign. A full, universal Pharmacare program would be transformational and it would be the first major expansion in the welfare state after over two decades of erosion.
#cdnpoli
Federal NDP unveils universal pharmacare plan, aims program delivery by the end of 2020
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@gmbutts
This kind of talking point works politically in Toronto, but gosh is it unhelpful if we actually care about housing outcomes.
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Yikes. So this looks like $14B in federal subsidies plus some large, undisclosed amount of provincial subsidies to shift workers out of service and into manufacturing jobs. Unless we're expecting a huge upswing in unemployment, there's no way this is worth it.
BREAKING: To secure the massive new VW battery plant, Canada signed an unprecedented contract with the company to offer up to $13 billion in production subsidies over 10 years, effectively matching the U.S. incentives on offer
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It says so much about the parallel justice system that exists for police that this video exists and the officer brutalizing Chief Adam has not yet been arrested.
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Heat pumps are great, but it's pretty wild that the dominant national affordability discussion is centred on subsidizing homeowners to purchase them. Talk about a profoundly alienating conversation for folks hit hardest in the affordability crisis.
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This is a huge win for educational workers, students, CUPE, and the labour movement more broadly. Forcing government to reverse course like this is unprecedented and is going to mean fairer collective agreements across the board in the months and years ahead.
#canlab
#onpoli
CUPE to end education workers strike in Ontario after Premier says he will repeal legislation that imposed a contract on them
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I assume we'll be getting a statement from
@cafreeland
or
@JustinTrudeau
condemning this power grab shortly?
Or have we really shifted entirely into the American camp on foreign policy in Latin America?
An opposition leader in Bolivia's Senate has declared herself the country's interim president after the resignation of Evo Morales. Members of Morales' left-leaning party were not present when lawmaker Jeanine Añez made her announcement.
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Folks, you can oppose opening up the Greenbelt on entirely reasonable environmental grounds. There's no need to try and hand wave away the housing crisis and the hundreds of thousands of young people, newcomers and working & middle class families who are hurting.
#onpoli
Has Ontario’s housing 'plan' been built on a foundation of evidentiary sand?
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@brish_ti
@CapitalDailyVic
It is absolutely wild that at most universities and colleges you get almost any form of accommodation if you come down with COVID, but a bloody nursing program would kick out a student for doing the responsible thing and plausibly saving some lives in the process.
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Tallying up their running total and the BC Liberals are now promising to slash 16% of ALL provincial revenues.
That would be the end of the AAA credit rating. More importantly, revenue reductions of that scale will almost certainly mean heavily slashed program spending.
#bcpoli
BREAKING: The Liberals will promise to ELIMINATE the provincial sales tax in year one of a COVID recovery plan, reduce it to THREE PER CENT in year two of the plan.
The PST is currently 7 per cent.
Please join me right now.
@CKNW
AM-980 and
#BCelxn2020
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Extremely disappointing to see the federal NDP going further down this path. Not only is this inappropriate from the perspective of central bank independence, but it shows a serious misunderstanding of how rate hikes impact inflation.
Jagmeet Singh says there is “no merit” to expected Bank of Canada interest rate hike via
@torontostar
#cdnpoli
#cdnecon
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Allowing a foreign power to retaliate against a political opponent of the governing party is completely outrageous. Whether its the Minister, the Deputy Minister or other senior staff responsible, this kind of behaviour has got to result in resignations.
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It would be swell if Canada's political class could stop trying to undermine the public's trust in journalism.
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@ColinDMello
Frankly, this isn't a professional tweet and shows a profound misunderstanding of labour relations and the collective bargaining process. And this is coming from a parent of a disabled child in the school system who faces substantial, direct consequences from this mess.
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The state stripping someone of their livelihood because of their culture or religion should be viewed as a crisis in our democracy that decent people, across political ideologies, can unite to fight.
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