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Originally Posted by wingmaker
This report is what it is, a presentation of certain statistical data that supports the authors thesis. You can argue with the thesis but the data is the data. The report includes the statistical data that they derived their charts from in the index. If you want to present statistical data that shows differently, fair enough, but just to dismiss the data because it doesn't support your biases is not relevant to anyone other than yourself.
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I only skimmed the Unifor report, which is a great link, this morning as I haven't had enough coffee for heavy thinking, haha.
I will say this - the statistics are interesting in and of themselves. I have no doubt that the second half of the Conservative reign has been during the harshest economic period of my lifetime and the numbers appear to reflect that. I don't know that things would have been particularly better or worse with any other government, but the statistics do seem to reflect reality.
The counterbalance is the analysis (via CBC link) that shows that Canada performed 'Head and shoulders' above rest of the G7.
Sadly, I expect that each side will pick the message that supports their perspective and crank up the biased/useless rhetoric.