The Truth About Canada (52 page)

6.
Globe and Mail
, October 12, 2006.

7.
Globe and Mail
, September 28, 2006.

8.
Globe and Mail
, October 31, 2007.

9.
National Post
, October 31, 2007.

10.
OECD Economic Outlook
, June, 2007.

11.
Globe and Mail
, November 2, 2007.

12.
Globe and Mail
, January 3, 2005.

13.
Toronto Star
, November 3, 2007.

14.
Globe and Mail
, October 31, 2007.

15.
Financial Post
, October 10, 2007.

CHAPTER NINETEEN

1.
Fiscal Reference Tables
, Department of Finance, September 2007.

2.
OECD Factbook
, 2007.

3.
Canadian Economic Observer
, Statistics Canada, May 2005.

4.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, September 24, 2007.

5.
OECD Factbook
, 2004.

6.
Ibid.

7.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, March 14, 2005.

8.
Perspectives
, Statistics Canada, Autumn 2006.

9.
Ibid.

10.
OECD Factbook
, 2006.

11.
Toronto Star
, May 30, 2004.

12.
Perspectives
, Statistics Canada, Autumn 2006.

13.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, March 30, 2006.

CHAPTER TWENTY

1.
Globe and Mail
, September 10, 2006.

2.
Third in natural gas production, eighth in copper, sixth in lead, fourth in zinc, second in nickel, third in aluminum, eighth in gold, and sixth in energy, according to the 2007 edition of
The Economist
magazine’s
Pocket World in Figures
.

3.
See Robin Banerjee and William B.P. Robinson, “Give Workers Better Equipment,”
Toronto Star
, June 12, 2007, and the earlier
Globe and Mail
editorial on their work, May 21, 2007.

PART FIVE

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

1.
Education at a Glance
, 2007, OECD.

2.
Toronto Star
, November 4, 2007.

3.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, November 7, 2006.

4.
OECD Factbook
, 2006.

5.
Education at a Glance
, 2006, OECD, and
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, November 7, 2006.

6.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, November 7, 2006.

7.
Maclean’s
, November 19, 2007.

8.
Globe and Mail
, September 2, 2006.

9.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, February 8, 2007.

10.
Tom Axworthy,
Toronto Star
, November 4, 2007.

11.
Shirley Won,
Globe and Mail
, May 23, 2007.

12.
Toronto Star
, November 4, 2007.

13.
Toronto Star
, September 24, 2006.

14.
Education at a Glance
, 2006, OECD.

15.
The Economist
, June 11, 2005.

16.
Statistics Canada’s Centre for Education Statistics.

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

1.
February 1, 2005.

2.
February 4, 2007.

3.
Data from Hill Strategies, quoted in the
Globe and Mail
, February 21, 2007.

4.
OECD Factbook
, 2007.

5.
The Economist
magazine’s
Pocket World in Figures
, 2006.

6.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, June 25, 2007.

7.
Statistics Canada,
General Social Survey
, 2005.

8.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, June 8, 2005.

9.
Globe and Mail
, June 23, 2004.

10.
Nordicity Group Ltd.

11.
The Economist
, October 28, 2006.

12.
The Canadian Music Industry — 2005 Economic Profile
.

13.
October 20, 2006.

14.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, March 31, 2005.

15.
Globe and Mail
, December 7, 2006.

16.
Toronto Star
, October 19, 2005.

17.
At this writing, the CRTC is still discussing the terms of the television broadcasting aspect of this takeover and has expressed reservations about who will really have effective control, CanWest Global Communications or the American Goldman Sachs Group.

18.
Claire McCaughey,
Comparisons of Arts Funding in Selected Countries
, October 2005.

19.
Globe and Mail
, June 27, 2007.

20.
Globe and Mail
, June 16, 2007.

21.
Globe and Mail
, May 14, 2007.

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

1.
March 3, 2005.

2.
www.qnn.tv/threads
, July 28, 2006.

3.
Apparently this is now up to five.

4.
The Record
(Kitchener-Waterloo), and the
Guelph Mercury
, July 12, 2005.

5.
Ben Bagdikian,
The Media Monopoly
(Boston: Boston Beacon Press, 2000).

6.
Literary Review of Canada
, January/February 2007.

7.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, December 6, 2006.

8.
Globe and Mail
, April 5, 2007.

9.
USA Today
, September 24, 2007.

10.
New York Times
, September 16, 2006.

11.
February 8, 2007.

12.
Globe and Mail
, March 21, 2007.

13.
Globe and Mail
, April 28, 2007.

14.
January 25/February 1, 2007.

15.
Globe and Mail
, September 15, 2007.

16.
National Post
, March 14, 2007.

PART SIX

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

1.
Investment Review
, Industry Canada quarterly.

2.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, August 30, 2007.

3.
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, October 2007.

4.
The Current
, CBC Radio, June 14, 2007.

5.
Financial Post
, June 14, 2007.

6.
Globe and Mail
, February 2007.

7.
Globe and Mail
, June 27, 2007.

8.
National Post
, May 9, 2007.

9.
Globe and Mail
, August 28, 2006.

10.
Leonard Farber, Ogilvy Renault LLP,
Globe and Mail
, April 4, 2007.

11.
Financial Post
, June 4, 2007.

12.
Globe and Mail
, July 1, 2007.

13.
Letter from Chamber of Commerce president and former Conservative cabinet minister Perrin Beatty to Industry Minister Jim Prentice, November 16, 2007.

14.
Globe and Mail
, April 17, 2007.

15.
Globe and Mail
, September 26, 2006.

16.
National Post
, March 31, 2007.

17.
Globe and Mail
, June 21, 2007.

18.
Globe and Mail
, May 2007.

19.
Globe and Mail
, April 13, 2007.

20.
Where I Stand
(Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1983).

21.
OECD Factbook
, 2006.

22.
Latest development in the Canadian economic accounts, 13–605 XIE.

23.
Globe and Mail
, August 22, 2007.

24.
Eric Beauchesne,
Financial Post
, June 22, 2007.

25.
If you include the numbers from 2001 to 2006 inclusive, there were even more foreign takeovers — 1,825, according to Investment Canada.

26.
Editorial, October 12, 2007.

27.
For future reference, here’s the number: (613) 954—1983.

28.
Memo to his supporters, June, 2007.

29.
Canadian Dimension
, August 2, 2007.

30. CanWest News Service, July 14, 2007.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

1.
Doug Davis, money manager at Davis-Rea Ltd., Toronto,
Toronto Star
, May 8, 2007.

2.
One recent Ipsos Reid poll showed that 56 percent of Canadians believe that foreign ownership is a problem for Canada, while only 16 percent said it is not a problem.

3.
April 2007.

4.
Toronto Star
, October 29, 2006.

5.
August 21, 2006.

6.
Globe and Mail
, October 9, 2007.

7.
Globe and Mail
, March 30, 2007.

8.
Globe and Mail
, February 20, 2006.

9.
Globe and Mail
, May 4 and May 5, 2007.

10.
March 11, 2007.

11.
Globe and Mail
, May 12, 2007.

12.
National Post
, April 9, 2007.

13.
David Olive,
Toronto Star
, May 13, 2007.

14.
May 8, 2007.

15.
Toronto Star
, October 29, 2006.

16.
Globe and Mail
, April 5, 2007.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

1.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, May 24, 2006.

2.
Canadian Economic Observer
, Historical Statistical Supplement, 2006/07, Statistics Canada.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN

1.
January 25, 2007.

2.
June 18, 2007.

3.
Globe and Mail
, November 6, 2006.

4.
James Milway,
Maclean’s
, March 19, 2007.

5.
Statistics Canada table no. 3800017.

6.
Aggregate Productivity Measures
, Statistics Canada.

7.
OECD Factbook
, 2007.

8.
The Daily
, Statistics Canada, May 11, 2007.

9.
Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives.

10.
BEA International Economic Accounts
, and Andrew Sharpe’s CSLS tables.

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

1.
August 28, 2006.

2.
November, 2006.

3.
February 2003.

4.
The Economist
, December 3, 2005.

5.
Toronto Star
, August 27, 2005.