“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
OTTAWA – L’Institut Rideau et le Centre canadien de politiques alternatives publient un nouveau rapport sur le projet du gouvernement canadien de construire des navires de patrouille extracôtiers / de l'Arctique.
Titanic Blunder: Arctic/Offshore Patrol Ships on course for disaster (Erreur Titanic : le navire de patrouille extracôtier / de l'Arctique met le cap sur le désastre) est le fruit des recherches de Michael Byers, professeur de sciences politiques à l’Université de la Colombie-Britannique, et Stewart Webb, chargé de recherche invité à l’Institut Rideau et associé de recherche au Salt Spring Forum.
L’acquisition de six à huit navires de patrouille extracôtiers / de l'Arctique a été annoncée en 2007, avec un budget de 3,1 G$, avec une projection de 4,3 G$ de dépense pour l’exploitation et la maintenance pour une durée de vie de 25 ans.
Parmi les principales conclusions de la recherche :
Le rapport fait les recommandations suivantes :
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Pour plus d’information, veuillez contacter Kerri-Anne Finn, agente principale des Communications du CCPA, au 613 563-1341, poste 306
In recent years, Canada has seen an explosion of low-skilled temporary foreign workers. Though outsourcing is not new, the practice is under renewed scrutiny—especially given the recent alleged in-sourcing of workers at RBC and the HD Mining case in British Columbia. On this morning’s episode of CBC Radio’s The Current, CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan does a great job of contextualizing the outsourcing problem in Canada and its troubling consequences, including a disappearing middle class.
Listen to Armine, here.
After four austerity budgets and lots of hide and seek, there are finally some answers about what services federal departments are going to cut. CCPA’s Senior Economist David Macdonald has examined over 180 departmental Reports on Plans and Priorities in order to estimate employment cuts down to the program level and determine where federal spending cuts hit the hardest. He finds that cuts have disproportionately focused on service delivery, and that the total number of federal public service jobs cut over the entire austerity period (March 2012 to March 2016) will be 28,700—with Human Resources and Skills Development Canada experiencing the largest loss of positions. By 2016, the total number of people working for the federal government will have fallen by 8%, almost double the 4.8% figure reported in Budget 2012.
Read the full analysis here.
For some old arguments in a new format, check out this Orwellian video, compliments of Target, for this season's newest line of anti-union propaganda. Two exemplary Target "team members" explain why we no longer need unions because we have laws prohibiting child labour. According to them, unions are businesses that need your dues to stay in business, but the only ones who benefit from unions are...unions. Not only that, bad unions picket nice Target stores and make Target's "guests" feel uncomfortable.
“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