Government feels it necessary to prop up Canadian banks

According to the IMF, Canada is the third worst of the G7 countries, behind the U.S. and Britain, in terms of financial stabilization costs.

POWELL RIVER, B.C.—The sorry spectacle of Conservative Cabinet ministers flying around the world defending banks from a tax to cover their next, inevitable, meltdown is bad enough. What is perhaps worse is that it is being largely justified by the perpetuation of the myth that Canada did no...

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