Quote of the Day: “The unions might be good for the people who are in the unions but it doesn’t do a thing for the people who are unemployed. Because the union keeps down the number of jobs, it doesn’t do a thing for them.” Milton Friedman
Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood is a senior “researcher” at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Just why TheRecord continues to publish op-eds from these idiots is beyond me. Today on the Editorial Page, he tells us that: “The feds are handing out $80 billion in corporate tax breaks for the clean economy and even transferring control of big public spending projects, like the $15-billion Canada Growth Fund, to private managers.” Well, the fact that the government is actually not collecting taxes is a good thing, I guess. Far better than just dumping money down a toilet. He then suggests that: “That market-first approach might work for scaling up clean investment overall, but there’s no guarantee that workers and communities will share in the benefits. For example, it may come as little consolation to laid-off oil workers in Cold Lake or Sarnia that there are new, greener jobs available in Calgary or Toronto.”. Yes, it’s that nasty old capitalism again. Making people move to where the jobs are… Really – this nonsense is getting tiresome.