Trudeau right to focus income distribution, but has failed to achieve productive economy
The Trudeau government deserves some credit for measures that help the middle class, such as the Child Benefit, the expanded Canada Pension Plan, and more emphasis on training. But as the OECD points out, slow wage growth is the prime reason for stagnant middle-class incomes.
TORONTO—If there is a central core to the Trudeau government’s promise to Canadians it is that it will improve lives of the middle class.
This was central to its 2015 election platform, has been at the centre of every one of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s four budgets, and some reference to ...
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