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 bcbc.com/insig...
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
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Brett House, Economist, Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Business School and Fellow with the Public Policy Forum
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Sunil Johal, Professor of Public Policy & Society, University of Toronto and Vice-President, Public Policy with the CSA Group
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Graeme Moffat, co-founder and scientist with System2 Neurotechnology www.system2neu..., and a senior fellow at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy
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Kaylie Tiessen, economist at Unifor, Canada’s largest private sector union - @KaylieTiessen
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This episode of The Agenda www.tvo.org/th... hosted by Steve Paikin / spaikin and was produced by Meredith Martin / 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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