Pre-Emptive Crisis Management in Ontario: Austerity Comes to Province Despite Failure of Forecast Deficit to Materialize

No Doomsday but Ontario Takes Out the Knives

by TRNN

Jim Stanford: Ontario slashes with austerity regime even though predicted massive deficit has not developed.

 

Jim Stanford is an Economist in the Research Department of the Canadian Auto Workers, Canada's largest private-sector trade union. He received his Ph.D. in Economics in 1995 from the New School for Social Research in New York. He also holds economics degrees from Cambridge University in the U.K. (1986) and the University of Calgary (1984). Jim is the author of Paper Boom (published in 1999 by James Lorimer & Co.) and co-editor (with Leah F. Vosko) of Challenging the Market: The Struggle to Regulate Work and Income (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004).