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• get Canadians working in good jobs again;
• reduce record-high income inequality, strengthen Canada’s middle class, and improve supports for Canada’s poor and most vulnerable;
• protect public programs that all Canadians
  rely on — including public health care and
  public pensions;
• manage Canada’s debt-to-GDP ratio
  without vital public program cuts;
• get serious about reducing greenhouse gas
  emissions; and
• launch a multi-pronged initiative to
  expand high value-added production in key
  sectors.

The AFB 2011 begins with a reckoning: There is no going back to the old way of doing things. The global meltdown helped discredit a freemarket system where governments turned a blind eye to lax regulations and let their citizens bear all the risks of a wild-west economy. Citizens around the world are still paying the price for that failed experiment.

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