>Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 14:39:03 -0400 >From: Bruce Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Organization: CCPA >X-Accept-Language: en >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Subject: New from the CCPA >Status: > >October 12, 2000 > >Dear Members and Friends: > >We released today REALITY CHECK: AN ALTERNATIVE ECONOMIC UPDATE. This is >the first of the Alternative Federal Budget 2001 releases. Among other >things it evaluates how the Liberal government allocated the fiscal >surplus during their second mandate (19970-2001) Far from meeting their >50-50 commitment the report finds shockingly that only 2% went into >program spending with 76% going into debt reduction and 26% into tax >cuts. > >You can download REALITY CHECK from our web site at: > http://www.policyalternatives.ca > > >Also be sure to have a look at FLYING WITHOUT A NET: ECONOMIC FREEDOM >FOR WORKING CANADANS IN 2000. By Amanda Brown and Jim Stanford > >The study which is a counterpoint to the Fraser Institute�s economic >freedom for business measure, develops a quantitative index of the >well-being of Canadian workers--called the Economic Freedom (For the >Rest of Us) Index (EFRU). The overall EFRU Index gained more than two >full points in 1998 and 1999, making up about half the ground lost >earlier in the decade. But the Index remains more than two full points >below the level that prevailed in1990, before the onset of the last >recession�solely because of the drop in social protections. > >Professor John Myles one of the Canada's most respected policy analysts >said the following about the EFRU index: "Of all the efforts I have seen >to create a running index that captures what we are after, this is by >far the best --- analytically well informed but easy to understand." > >FLYING WITHOUT A NET can also be downloaded for free from our web site: >http://www.policyalternatives.ca > > > >-- >Bruce Campbell >Executive Director >Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives >Suite 410, 75 Albert Street, Ottawa, ON K1P 5E7 >Tel: 613-563-1341 Fax: 613-233-1458 >E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.policyalternatives.ca >
