“We need the CCPA to remind us that our dreams of a decent, egalitarian society are reasonable — indeed that with a little work, they are practical. And I love that practicality, that protection of the dream of the possible.”
— Naomi Klein
Nancy Baroni & Nancy Peckford (Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action), John Foster (North-South Institute), and Armine Yalnizyan (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives) wrote the Canadian chapter in Social Watch this year.
In their chapter Economic stimulus 2009: opportunity lost, they lament the federal government's weak and delayed injection of stimulus funds into economy to help reverse the recession.
"Budget 2009 was an opportunity for the Government to lessen the blow of the recession by focusing on the most vulnerable citizens," they write, "but political jockeying led to a short-sighted economic stimulus plan that does not meet the needs of the thousands of citizens feeling the brunt of the crisis."
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