Killing the Welfare State: Liberals and the 1990s
Alberta Advantage Podcast
English - July 13, 2020 15:29 - 1 hour - 104 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsSociety & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Remember when the Liberals campaigned on expanding national child care, but eviscerated the welfare state instead? Oh, the 90s!
Doug Nesbitt, founding editor of rankandfile.ca, joins Team Advantage to discuss the reign of Canada's Liberal Party through the 1990s. How did austerity and double-digit unemployment become normalized? What happened to Canada's social programs? How did the business lobby exert such influence? How did the media manufacture a fiscal crisis?