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Jeff Ranson

@jeffranson

Green Buildings and Urban Development in Toronto. Tweets my own

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Canada's GDP per capita is lagging behind the US. But US debt growth per capita is also way higher. Can any economists explain how much the GDP gap is related to deficit spending gap? visualcapitalist.com/government-deb…

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Is Canada "a small part of global emissions"? a) our direct emissions are about 2% b) what we import causes about 2.5% more (mostly in China) when it's made, c) what we export (mostly Oil & Gas) causes another 3%. We touch >7% with .5% of population

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The US has run a significantly higher deficit to GDP ratio than Canada over the last decade. How much does that explain the difference in productivity and what is the risk of a significant period of productivity that doesn't dilute debt at all?

The US has run a significantly higher deficit to GDP ratio than Canada over the last decade. How much does that explain the difference in productivity and what is the risk of a significant period of productivity that doesn't dilute debt at all?
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The rates should go down significantly because the assessed value growth would be WAY higher than the proposed tax rate increase. But on average this would have zero impact on the tax amount paid. It’s just applying a lower rate to a higher value to get to the same total.

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I think any politician who supports this should pilot it on themselves. Record everything they do and let AI scan for impropriety.

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This is a great approach. Little projects have little public risk and big projects have bigger public risk, so resource appropriately. (Replace "risk" with impact/service burden/transformative potential/investment value...whatever you want to focus on).

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Instead of east-west pipelines why don’t we build a trans-Canada super conductor transmission network? That would unlock markets for both renewables and LNG+CCS generation in the Prairies.