Who Is This Economy Working For? | The Agenda

The Organization for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD) predicts that Canada will be the worst-performing advanced economy over the next decade https://bcbc.com/insights-and-opinions/oecd-predicts-canada-will-be-the-worst-performing-advanced-economy-over-the-next-decade-and-the-three-decades-after-that

While the top 20% of households hold almost 70% of all the net worth in the country, wages have been virtually stagnant for 50 years. It begs the question: Who Does The Economy Work For? Steve Paikin is joined by:

Vass Bednar, Executive Director at McMaster University’s Master of Public Policy in Digital Society Program and author of the substack regs to riches
https://www.regs2riches.com/
@VassB

Brett House, Economist, Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School and Fellow with the Public Policy Forum
https://ppforum.ca
@BrettEHouse
https://ppforum.ca/person/brett-house/
https://twitter.com/brettehouse

Sunil Johal, Professor of Public Policy & Society, University of Toronto and Vice-President, Public Policy with the CSA Group
@JohalSunil
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sunil-johal/

Graeme Moffat, co-founder and scientist with System2 Neurotechnology https://www.system2neurotech.com/, and a senior fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
@graemedmoffat
https://www.linkedin.com/in/graememoffat/

Kaylie Tiessen, economist at Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union - @KaylieTiessen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kaylie-tiessen-3a938a30/?originalSubdomain=ca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMqMs7L6gKU

This episode of The Agenda https://www.tvo.org/theagenda hosted by Steve Paikin https://twitter.com/spaikin and was produced by Meredith Martin https://twitter.com/meredithmartin

00:00 Intro
00:28 Intro guests
02:28 Worst Performing Advanced Economy
06:54 False sense of security
10:22 Who is the economy working for?
13:26 Productivity
16:00 Rana interview clip
19:43 Tweet
21:20 Does Canada have too much corporate concentration?
23:55 Build back better?
24:55 Where’s the Innovation?
28:20 Vass on resiliency
29:50 Solutions and ideas

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