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Wrong? No. But I would warn, as a fellow Canadian myself, that it didn’t totally fix the problem.
Pierre Polievre (current right wing leader who walked with the Trucker convoy) is probably going to win at least a minority, and the more right wing parts of my family can’t hide their hope he “finally helps the majority, rather then all these minorities getting help.”
I had an uncle who nearly tested this theory.
I hope he gets his license pulled soon.
The closest I could think about was Economists speaking out about Reaganomics. I also couldn’t find anything exactly like this, however I did find Bush Sr. Calling it voodoo economics and Democrats actually are credited in some cases as calling it Trickle Down economics as a negative. Even Gerald Ford attacked it, which is something coming from the guy who pardoned Nixon.
I found some criticism from Martin Feldstein in 1986 about the strength of supply side economics and some “extremists”, though that was after the fact.
I am remembering an article months ago that stated Toronto businesses were having trouble employing people due to cost of living driving up wages.
So while I’d hope we could argue for the above, I don’t think the top earners want to give up anything. Or rather they (the top earners) realize this, know a return to work will kick off people quitting for company’s that are remote, and have told Chow that she has to deal with the consequences, aka finding a way to travel the city better than currently and food prices to calm down or for rent prices to drop.
And asking them to fund better methods for getting downtown, right? Or subsidizing food costs so restaurants don’t cost a lot, right? Or not working employees to death so they don’t mind staying downtown every so often, right?
No, no, gotta make employees come downtown, that’ll solve it. What little I could read, the banks are asking her to lead the way. So now it’s up to Queens Park to improve the city, which the province will not fund, which will mean half measures and shitty work for the rest of us. Great job Olivia, try harder.
I think it comes down to what those things are rather then not compromising. Not compromising on human rights, for instance, is great. Not compromising on if you can openly hate gay people due to your religion, not so great. If you feel child labour is required for a functional society, also not great. So it’s chilling when someone in a high level of rule making says they don’t believe they can compromise on their hatred.
Add to that they believe they are being persecuted and that their German heritage will explain how they will eventually react, and it becomes more chilling.