Finance committee  I would like to clarify Mr. Smith's position. According to him, government spending should be linked to the GDP.

Finance committee  I think that's a good idea. It's better than what the government is currently doing. It is cutting expenditures, and thereby hurting our economy. I think it would be preferable to increase public spending in order to provide the necessary services and to support our economy.

Finance committee  Thank you very much. —an economic textbook. Companies would borrow money to finance investment over and above their profits. That relationship has flipped around. More recently you can see that after-tax profits are quite a bit larger than investment. It's actually even worse th

Finance committee  Thank you very much. I'm very happy to be here. In addition to my work as an economist for the United Steelworkers union, I also serve as the volunteer chair of an organization called the Progressive Economics Forum, which has about 200 members across Canada. I'm very proud of