What Canada needs is a shift in focus away from consumption and towards savings and investment.
"Don Drummond" was a Jamaican ska trombone/trombonist and composer. He was one of the original members of The Skatalites, and composed many of their tunes.
Drummond was born at the Jubilee Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica/Kingston, Jamaica, to Doris Monroe and Uriah Drummond. He was educated at Kingston's Alpha Boys School, where he later taught his younger schoolmate Rico Rodriguez (musician)/Rico Rodriguez to play the trombone.
His musical career began in 1950 with the Eric Dean's All-Stars where he performed jazz. He continued into the 1960s with others, including Kenny Williams.
After performing jazz for a decade, Drummond began performing ska and in 1964 Don joined The Skatalites. With Drummond's politicized conversion to the Rastafari movement, other band members followed his lead. He became a household name in Jamaica, before suffering mental problems. He was rated by pianist George Shearing to be among the world's top five trombone players.
More Don Drummond on Wikipedia.If Finance was convinced it was a problem -- and it was being driven by inadequacy of the tax system -- it should have been dealt with couple of years ago.
The harsh reality is in many instances they're actually better off on welfare.
It wouldn't be unfair to say that not only is the horse out of the barn but Finance has no idea where the horse has gone.
You could take this equalization burden away from Ontario and it's still going to have those dollar issues, and the commodity prices issues.
We sometimes forget that the U.S. economy is a quarter of all world demand for oil, so if it slows down it should take some of the froth off the demand side.
Canada has recorded a remarkably bad productivity performance. Productivity has been tepid in terms of absolute growth rates and relative to the growth and levels recorded in other major economies. If this continues it will threaten the standard of living of Canadians.
We don't have anything in the safety net other than welfare, which is why there's nothing else to catch them on the way down, so they end up on the welfare rolls -- which is inappropriate.
That's not to say it's not worthwhile.
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