{"id":1697,"date":"2008-11-20T22:27:14","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T03:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/2008\/11\/20\/the-silver-lining-of-recession\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:13:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:13:27","slug":"the-silver-lining-of-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2008\/11\/20\/the-silver-lining-of-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"The silver lining of recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"storyhead\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3042\/3046574237_cabc9309f1.jpg\" height=\"400\" width=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0A completely unrelated picture, from Luc at <a href=\"http:\/\/montrealdailyphoto.blogspot.com\/2008\/04\/graffiti-on-graffiti.html\">Montreal Daily Photo<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The likelihood of this worldwide recession simply blowing over Canada appears to be a<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/money\/econobytes\/2008\/11\/lack_of_confidence.html\"> increasingly ridiculous possibility<\/a>. But perhaps this is the ideal time to invest in overdue infrastructure for Canada&#8217;s major cities, a tried-and-tested strategy for stimulating the economy in tough times. A &#8220;New New Deal&#8221;, one might call it.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, that&#8217;s exactly what Jean Perrault, president of the Canadian Federation of Municipalities, is telling Stephen Harper and provincial leaders. As the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/money\/econobytes\/2008\/11\/a_silver_lining_for_cities.html\">CBC reports<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Many economists agree it\u2019s a tried and true way of keeping an economy going, especially when they\u2019re not make-work projects (it\u2019s hard to argue Canada\u2019s infrastructure isn\u2019t in need of repair when a bridge collapses in Quebec or a sewage treatment plant leaks sewage into an Ontario river).\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article cites the need to invest in roads and bridges and the like. I sincerely hope &#8220;the like&#8221; includes rail, both between cities (like the long sought after high speed rail corridor from Windsor &#8211; Quebec City) and urban mass transit options, like the long awaited tramways up avenue de Parc and chemin de la C\u00f4te-des-Neiges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; \u00a0A completely unrelated picture, from Luc at Montreal Daily Photo The likelihood of this worldwide recession simply blowing over Canada appears to be a increasingly ridiculous possibility. But perhaps this is the ideal time to invest in overdue infrastructure for Canada&#8217;s major cities, a tried-and-tested strategy for stimulating the economy in tough times. 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