Not that I agree with Muclairs tactics or exactly what he was saying, but this from a political standpoint is a bit awkward. (of course it comes out on the Friday of a long weekend so it'll have little impact to the whole debate).
The Harper government has funded research that argues Canada’s economy suffers from so-called Dutch Disease
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“We show that between 33 and 39 per cent of the manufacturing employment loss that was due to exchange rate developments between 2002 and 2007 is related to the Dutch Disease phenomenon,” says the study.
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but on the other side it also points that the job loss is in Textile, Small Businesses...
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Attempting to debunk the notion that an increased reliance on oil exports is hollowing out Central Canada’s manufacturing base, the report concluded that cyclical factors and global competition are mostly to blame for the decline in factory production in Canada over the last decade.
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