Canada at a crossroads as history repeats itself

We have not learned the lessons of 1995, when that NAFTA era budget dramatically reduced social spending and gutted the civil service. Once again, Canada is meeting a moment with a budget that abandons people and the environment to fuel corporate growth.
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s budget priorities reveal a dangerous miscalculation of what a nation needs to grow strong, writes Josephine Grey and Sheila Regehr.

On Nov. 4, Canada's federal budget was released on the same day as the start of the second World Summit for Social Development. The tragic irony is impossible to miss. Thirty years ago, in March 1995, while Canadian delegates were confirming commitments to people-centred sus...

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