Podcasts about drummond report

Alex Pierson is joined by Don Drummond, Canadian economist, having served extensively in the federal Department of Finance Canada, and as a scholar at Queen's University and recognized  for "the Drummond Report" which cautioned the McGuinty government against excessive spending. 

This Week: Ornge air ambulance service, the Drummond Report, calls to cancel corporate tax cuts, job losses at Caterpillar and Addiction Services in Native Communities.

Topics include: Reaction to the Drummond Report, calls to stop corporate tax cuts, the controversy at Ontario's air amubulance service, Ornge.

Lindsey Pinto, Communications manager of OpenMedia.ca. discusses the Harper government’s on-line spying bill and why opposition to it is so fierce. Tom Walkom, national affairs columnist for the Toronto Star, disputes the very premise of he Drummond Report—that Ontario faces an imminent fiscal crisis unless it cuts back its entire government infrastructure and government services including both health and education. He looks at the impact these cuts would have, especially on lower income Ontarians. York University politics professor David McNally who recently visited China, discusses that country’s state capitalist system, its economic successes and its gigantic income inequalities.

Our panel discusses the Drummond Report suggestion that we need more LCBO stores; why the outside workers don't want to let angry paramedics break away; and why the suburbs are growing faster than downtown.