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Welcome to NDP Politics, 21st Century Style
Fri, 2015-06-19 22:18
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Welcome to NDP Politics, 21st Century Style
Fri, 2015-06-19 22:21
#2
Brilliant move by Notley, and Mulcair will be sure to benefit from this as well.
Alberta hires David Dodge, ex-Bank of Canada governor, for spending advice
The Alberta government is bringing in a former Bank of Canada governor to help develop a plan for building roads, schools and hospitals.
Premier Rachel Notley announced Friday that David Dodge will advise on the best level of infrastructure spending in the next four to five years.
She said Dodge will look at not only how much to build, but the best time to build it, given Alberta’s slumping oil economy. And, if money has to be borrowed, he’ll suggest the best way to do it.
“We need to get this right,” said Notley, who sat beside Dodge and Infrastructure Minister Brian Mason at a news conference.
Dodge will do reviews over the summer and is to file his suggestions by the fall in time for Mason to craft infrastructure and transportation spending plans for the budget.
http://ipolitics.ca/2015/06/19/alberta-hires-david-dodge-ex-bank-of-cana...
Fri, 2015-06-19 22:24
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This confirms to me that Notley is there for a long time, not just a good time.
Fri, 2015-06-19 22:25
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Brain Jean will be choking on his Tims...er Starbucks coffee today.
Fri, 2015-06-19 23:45
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'Alberta is not Greece yet' … Why do we have to pay for Jack Mintz's mythmaking?
http://rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/djclimenhaga/2015/06/alberta-not-greece-...
Sat, 2015-06-20 01:20
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the blog article is worth reading.
Sun, 2015-06-21 14:12
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Brilliant move by Notley, and Mulcair will be sure to benefit from this as well.
Alberta hires David Dodge, ex-Bank of Canada governor, for spending advice
The Alberta government is bringing in a former Bank of Canada governor to help develop a plan for building roads, schools and hospitals.
Premier Rachel Notley announced Friday that David Dodge will advise on the best level of infrastructure spending in the next four to five years.
She said Dodge will look at not only how much to build, but the best time to build it, given Alberta’s slumping oil economy. And, if money has to be borrowed, he’ll suggest the best way to do it.
“We need to get this right,” said Notley, who sat beside Dodge and Infrastructure Minister Brian Mason at a news conference.
Dodge will do reviews over the summer and is to file his suggestions by the fall in time for Mason to craft infrastructure and transportation spending plans for the budget.
http://ipolitics.ca/2015/06/19/alberta-hires-david-dodge-ex-bank-of-cana...
This is a great way to buy political cover. David Dodge is well respected by economists, particularly of the academic stripe, and his recommendations for the public finance in Ontario were extremely conservative, to the displeasure of many (particularly in the provincial Liberal government that had no intention of acting on his recommendations). Dodge's appointment is bound to placate the right and give the provincial government some breathing room on new infrastructure spending, if that's what he recommends. At the same time, the average voter is unlikely to give a rat's ass what Dodge says or writes so the NDP will ultimately hang on their view(s).