Mark Carney's economic agenda misses something vital
Matthew Mendelsohn is the CEO of Social Capital Partners, a Canadian policy non-profit dedicated to tackling wealth concentration and to broadening access to wealth, ownership and economic security for workers.
The Carney government's early economic growth priorities have been clear for months. The details can be found in the Building Canada Act, which makes way for big, national infrastructure projects, biased heavily toward natural resources and energy.
This is perfectly reasonable for an early growth agenda, so long as Indigenous rights are respected. But it misses something important: how to increase Canadian ownership of Canadian assets and ensure that more Canadians stand to benefit.
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