Opinion: We can’t just pick up the pieces after the pandemic subsides – we need to keep them together

This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.Bob Rae is a former premier of Ontario. Mel Cappe is a former clerk of the Privy Council. They are currently professors in the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy

This effort is far from over – we have not yet been able to bend and flatten the curve. But that is no reason to stop in these critical efforts. It is our battle with the virus that will determine the timing of other responses. Research and ingenuity will help us. Testing for antibodies may show who has developed immunity and who has not. Better treatments are always possible.

The federal government has the best fiscal position among G7 countries. Our relatively low debt-to-GDP ratio was built to allow us to face a crisis. Now is the time to use it. Running deficits is not, in the present circumstances, as large a problem as letting the economy wallow in depression. We are all Keynesians now.

For the medium-term and the recovery phase, government should finance investment in infrastructure on an even larger scale than it has in the past. Municipalities and provinces have projects that are ready to be financed. It is vital to get the money out the door for the later spring and summer.For the recovery, the government will need much advice beyond that of the professional public service.

GlobeDebate Could you just go lick some toilets please.

GlobeDebate The poster boy for “champagne socialism” - the rich elite lecturing us why socialism is good for us. Only the Liberal Party would embrace the worst premier in 🇨🇦 history, who almost bankrupted Ontario. It’s akin to hiring Chernobyl’s engineers to run our nuclear energy program.

GlobeDebate I'm really hoping this pandemic's a reset cause I'd rather thake my chances then know the future still has Bob Rae in a possition of priviledge

GlobeDebate What about all the debt the federal gov has off-loaded to Provs & Territories, then trickled down to cities and towns?

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GlobeDebate Why would the MSM even talk to this idiot Another liberano!

GlobeDebate Yeah.. remember picking up the pieces after his shit show as Leader ? No thanks..

GlobeDebate “We are all Keynesians now.” No we are not.

GlobeDebate You should be disgusted in yourselves for interviewing him. He should be disgusted for opening his mouth. What has this world come to

GlobeDebate You're getting advice for Canada from this P.O.S. seriously do better...

GlobeDebate Nobody gives a shit about what you have to say!

GlobeDebate Ontario is still picking up the pieces from Bob Rae’s failed NDP gov, thankfully he turned liberal after his failure, which was a natural progression from NDP failure to liberal!

GlobeDebate Turncoat Rae Bob with more destructive advice.

GlobeDebate Why on earth are you even giving this hack a platform? He is also responsible for Ontar I Owe's massive debtload!

GlobeDebate Paul James has been denied justice because of Rae

GlobeDebate Bob Rae day is not someone we should be listening to.

GlobeDebate Socialist is gonna commie

GlobeDebate Oh ffs, let’s get someone with some knowledge please.

GlobeDebate Tell Trudeau

GlobeDebate Ear wax eatin' Bob Rae I'll pass on his advice Be sure an wash yer' hands Bob...he's blocked me sooo I don't care

GlobeDebate We are all Keynesians now? Speak for yourself you platitudinous limousine Liberal. You and your ilk have all but guaranteed that Canadian's will being paying off our national debt for generations to come.

GlobeDebate Piss off, White Owl.

GlobeDebate OMG... Next, Let’s ask Dalton McGuinty to advise us on fiscal responsibility and ethics !!! 🤣🤣🤣

GlobeDebate Advise from the Patron Saint of Ontariowe onpoli He tripled debt. $35B 1990 to $91B in 1995 90s dollars folks. 4 years. Massive deficits. Total failure. Let me guess, big generation should enslave smaller one in even more Gov't debt. What a proud legacy. He's still at it.

GlobeDebate Posting columns by Bob rae. So glad I stopped my 20 year subscription to your joke paper 15 years ago.

GlobeDebate Go away, turn coat.

GlobeDebate How many years bud? Just curious

GlobeDebate How long have you been on the public trough?

GlobeDebate Can I get hired?

GlobeDebate This coming from a guy who wrecked Ontario.

GlobeDebate Why doesn't he go to Xinjiang with a prolonged stop at Wuhan?

GlobeDebate Former YSW plotter of financial ruin anywaythewindblows Go write a book on how you spend your way out of deficits Raedays 🧮

GlobeDebate the globe listening to BobRae48 ? I still remember the massive fuckup he did to Ontario as premier... 'rae days' etc.. the stench was so bad bob had to bail on the NDP and hid under the skirts of the liberal party... if I managed my money the way the ndp, liberals managed

GlobeDebate should have listened to realDonaldTrump back 3 months ago to close the borders

GlobeDebate Govt., govt., govt. What has ever been made better by govt control? The latest, weed? Bob Rae is a communist who wants large govt control of everything, including your freedom. cdnpoli Covid_19

GlobeDebate Climbs out of the Liberal manure pit every frw mo tha to ask for more money.

GlobeDebate Canada was already in pieces long before this pandemic. We all have Trudeau to thank for that.

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