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Does the federal government have a debt problem?
No. See graph below. Canada is plotted in pink. In fact we have one of lowest central government debt to GDP ratios in the OECD.
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- LeftStreamed: Privatization of Public Services and Consequences for Labour November 27, 2009Experiences from Europe - with author and researcher Christoph Hermann, Working Life Research Centre, Vienna, Austria. Recorded November 19, 2009.
- Bullet: Mexico: The Murder of a Union and the Rebirth of Class Struggle (part 2) November 26, 2009The government's blitzkrieg attack on the SME has failed to destroy the resistance. Rather, the Mexican regime faces the broadest, deepest, and most unified resistance movement in decades.
- Bullet: Mexico: The Murder of a Union and the Rebirth of Class Struggle November 25, 2009The neoliberal war on the working people of Mexico reached a new intensity with the government's lightning assault on the power workers union, the Sindicato Mexicano de Electricistas (SME - Mexican Electrical Workers Union), and on Mexico’s energy resources on October 10.
- Bullet: Museum Workers at War November 24, 2009The casualization of labour has placed many workers in a position of precariousness forcing them into a state of perpetual insecurity characteristic of the ‘new economy’ neoliberal nightmare. In an effort to reduce production costs and maximize profitability, many employers have adopted a neoliberal approach to employment, which is achieved through the tempo […]
- What's New: Immigrant workers fight back November 22, 2009Fight Back reveals an alarming trend in Canada's political economy: the emergence of 'a new underclass of immigrant labour'.
- What's New: CD release - "Hadeel" by Rafeef Ziadah November 9, 2009Single 'Hadeel' available for download.
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