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To: Toronto Star <lettertoed@thestar.ca>Cc: dolive@thestar.ca
Subject: Re: Ottawa bets on infrastructure bank as a tool for social justice: Olive, June 17, 2107
- https://www.thestar.com/business/2017/06/17/ottawa-bets-on-infrastructure-bank-as-a-tool-for-social-justice-olive.html
- David Olive's proposal that public pension funds provide financing for infrastructure is flawed.
- First, there is no shortage of low-cost government funds when we own the Bank of Canada - witness the recent $200 billion bailout of big banks and corporations after the 2008 financial crisis, or the government's sudden decision to increase defense spending by $62 billion.
- Second, while pension funds may be '"non-profit", the public-partnership model eats up enormous accounting, legal and management charges, and pension funds expect a 7-9% return. Such financing is expected to double the cost of projects.
- Third, while helping retirees may seem admirable, the monies are extracted through tolls and fees largely from overstretched middle-class families when they can least afford it.
- However, Olive makes a good point regarding CPP's meagre investments in Canada. At a time when 1.3 million Canadians are unemployed, why is our national pension fund sucking money out the domestic economy and building up competitor companies overseas?
- Footnotes:
- 1. Improving Access to Financing and Strengthening Canada's ...
- www.fin.gc.ca/pub/report-rapport/2011-7/ceap-paec-2f-eng.asp
- "To soften the impact of the crisis, the first phase of Canada�s Economic Action Plan included measures to provide up to $200 billion to support lending to Canadian households and businesses through the Extraordinary Financing Framework."
- "To soften the impact of the crisis, the first phase of Canada�s Economic Action Plan included measures to provide up to $200 billion to support lending to Canadian households and businesses through the Extraordinary Financing Framework."
- 2. Private financing of infrastructure bank could double the cost of infrastructure projects
- https://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/news-releases/private-financing-infrastructure-bank-could-double-cost-infrastructure#sthash.4mJk8bje.dpuf
- "Private financing of the proposed Canada Infrastructure Bank could double the cost of infrastructure projects, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)."
- "Private financing of the proposed Canada Infrastructure Bank could double the cost of infrastructure projects, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)."
- 2. Michael Hudson is Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City and author The Bubble and Beyond (2012).
- http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/05/parasites-in-the-body-economic-the-disasters-of-neoliberalism/
- "The objective of the classical economists was to bring prices in line with value to prevent a free ride, to prevent monopolies, to prevent an absentee landlord class so as to free society from the legacy of feudalism .....
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- To prevent such price gouging...., Europeans kept the most important natural monopolies in the public domain: the post office, the BBC and other state broadcasting companies, roads and basic transportation, as well as early national airlines. European governments prevented monopoly rent by providing basic infrastructure services at cost, or even at subsidized prices or freely in the case of roads. The guiding idea is for public infrastructure � which you should think of as a factor of production along with labor and capital � was to lower the cost of living and doing business."
- "The objective of the classical economists was to bring prices in line with value to prevent a free ride, to prevent monopolies, to prevent an absentee landlord class so as to free society from the legacy of feudalism .....
From: "John Feldsted" <jfeldsted@shaw.ca>
Subject: Hypocrisy writ large:
While Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is violating our constitution by forcing provinces to impose a carbon tax, allegedly to reduce carbon emissions, he is personally engaged in creating a large carbon footprint. His flitting around Canada and internationally with an entourage along with security personnel entails significant carbon emissions.
On top of taxing our economy in the hope, but without proof, that it will lead to reduced carbon emissions, Trudeau is spending billions to help developing nations to prepare for climate change. That is an admission that the Paris Agreement will not mitigate climate change effects.
Canadians are being hit with a double whammy. We are taxed to reduce carbon emissions. We are taxed to help developing nations prepare for climate change. Trudeau�s three-legged stool is missing a leg. Nothing is being done to prepare Canada for climate change.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is the epitome of a Pecksniff � someone useful only as a sign post, pointing the way to high ethics and ideals but never going there himself. �Sunny ways� is apparently code for global socialism. Trudeau governs from well left of the NDP.
The huge deficits Trudeau is running up are a precursor to the great equalizer, which is a deep depression that impoverishes all but the ultra rich and will require generations of recovery.
Combatting climate change is not in the best interests of Canadians if it results in higher prices while lowering our economic competitiveness. Trudeau has had to years to develop a sensible carbon reduction plan and the best he could come up with was a tax on carbon. That is a penalty, not a plan.
John Feldsted
Political Consultant & Strategist
Winnipeg, Manitoba
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