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Originally Posted by westopher
Hondaracer. What should Canada be doing differently? What do you think would be fixing our economy? What countries economy is weathering this storm?
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For one thing, I continue to be surprised that he hasn't invoked the Canadian Defence Production Act just like Trump has done for the US. All that Trudeau has done so far is to call on the industrial sector to jump in and help however they can.
A lot can be said about how Trudeau could have / should have done in the past 3 months. I don't want to go into that now because we can no longer change what has already happened. But IMO, this disease has proven quite some time ago that it is likely the biggest threat the world has seen on a global scale since WW2. Because of its severity, we need to treat it like a war, and that means some war time measures (such as government directed domestic production of certain goods -- PPE, for example) need to happen, and it should have happened already, but it still hasn't.
Government-directed production of certain goods wouldn't be able to fix our economy directly, but it could help us curb our infection numbers and keep our health workers safe. Depending on what needs to be done, it might even be possible to mitigte some of the economic strains that we are seeing now due to the layoffs and stuff -- ie. some of the unemployed might get hired to do this work.
IMO, Trudeau has done a decent job on the money handout, although as we all know, that'll come with a HUGE cost down the line as we'd need to repay all that debt. But for most other aspects of how the epidemic was handled, he and the federal gov has almost always been playing catch up.
