Article content “This means that our population is growing so fast that we do not have enough savings to stabilize our capital-labour ratio and achieve an increase in GDP per capita,” the economists said. “Simply put, Canada is in a population trap for the first time in modern history.”
How on earth can they square this sentence with other stories out about CEO compensation, corporate profits and the share of national wealth by the top-10 and top-1% being higher than ever. How are we “not productive” when we have a tax code and official government policy that favours hoarding of cash over investment in business?
What fucking hypocrites the Financial Post is staffed by.
The problem isn’t that we don’t have enough milk in the bottle, it’s that someone keeps stealing the cream and leaving the rest of us with water.