Economics professor at Université Laval.
Joined March 2010
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Every time someone thinks I should lose my job as a university professor for expressing an opinion, it's *always* a Liberal
It is time to resign from your professor position, you are obviously not qualified or moral enough.
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I hoped that Carney's Econ programs taught him micro and macro... but apparantly not.
Way too many people, and apparently too many ECONOMISTS, confuse "competition" and "the number of competitors."
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Supply management costs low-income households some $600 a year in excessive dairy and poultry prices.
If you think that doesn't matter but the imagined market power of grocery stores does, you are not a serious person, much less a serious government.
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I will believe that a Canadian politican or a Canadian pundit is serious about how monopolies make food prices higher than they should be the minute they start pointing their fingers at the Dairy Cartel as the absolute worst example.
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I've just been informed I posted the wrong link, here's the correct one
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Oh goody: another platform for Ottawa to demonstrate its inability to run anything.
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"Ottawa is also considering a government-run age-verification service"
thelogic.co/news/miller-safe…
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I will believe that a Canadian politican or a Canadian pundit is serious about how monopolies make food prices higher than they should be the minute they start pointing their fingers at the Dairy Cartel as the absolute worst example.
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This is *so* dumb.
If grocery stores really had market power to speak of, they wouldn't settle for the razor-thin margins they have now.
What the hell is Carney playing at?
Jun 11
PM Carney calls out the grocery monopolies, vows to strengthen Competition Bureau:
"Three quarters of those grocery stores are the same five large retailers"
"We're going to make sure that there's competition in the sector"
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If you're a Canadian artist who lives in Canada, then there was probably a six-month period where you were defending this great nation against 51st-statehood, but before and after that you were more likely to be saying that Canada was a white supremacist genocidal apartheid state
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It's...not *un*interesting that Elbow Patriotism is so disproportionately voiced by artists who live in the US
Jun 11
The World Lives Here.
Canada is all together different. Truly unique. And so is our relationship to the beautiful game. This is our opening to the 2026 World Cup. Narrated by Kiefer Sutherland. #FIFAWorldCup
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If I were still writing columns, I could recycle this one with only minor changes.
"Canada is not in a recession, and that's a bad thing"
nationalpost.com/opinion/ste…
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This is the most depressing chart I've seen since I don't know when.
Take a bow, Canada's political-pundit class: you've achieved your avowed goal of making Canadians stupid.
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The debate over a "technical" recession is irrelevant politically.
@Pollara has 25 years of tracking to show Canadians FEEL recession far more often than the technical definition. The majority of people have believed Canada is in recession 6 years running.
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Basically, political partisans are stupid thugs whose only role is to poison public discourse.
Goddam but I hate politics.
Am having nasty flashbacks of the dumb "Harper Recesssion of 2015" rhetoric.
The only thing that's different is that Liberals and Conservatives are using the talking points the other side used in 2015.
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Am having nasty flashbacks of the dumb "Harper Recesssion of 2015" rhetoric.
The only thing that's different is that Liberals and Conservatives are using the talking points the other side used in 2015.
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From @TSNDaveNaylor - CFL appears to be planting expansion flag in Quebec City: tsn.ca/cfl/article/cfl-appea…
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I keep hearing reference to Canada's high unemployment in the current "recession" discourse.
7% isn't historically high.
And the unemployment rate has, in fact, been essentially flat for nearly two years.
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Technical recessions are not a thing
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Too Early to Call a Recession: Business Cycle Council Urges Caution on Latest GDP Data
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RT @MarcLevesqueEco: If we had a serious official opposition, this is what it would be focusing on instead of the industrial carbon tax and…
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I keep insisting it's important to not interpret the recent reduction in the trend growth rate for a recession, and here's why: I remember what happened the last time we made that mistake.
It took us 20 years to recover, I don't want Canada to relive that lost generation.
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So we hauled out the anti-recession playbook: expansionary fiscal and monetary policy.
But expansionary fiscal and monetary policy doesn't do anything for trend growth rates: all we got was inflation and trashed public finances.
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It took us 20 years to dig our way out from the consequences of mistaking a reduction in the growth rate for a recession in the mid 1970s.
I don't want us to make the same mistake again.
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