Posted Nov 16, 2021, 5:30 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2001
Location: Vancouver
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This channel is interesting although I find he can be tendentious and often his economic arguments are a bit stylized, not capturing all of the factors. I mostly like the parts where he explains how things work in the Netherlands, and I think there's a lot of Canadians to learn from that, but just importing those things would be complicated with some working and others not.
I don't know for sure but I get the impression the Netherlands invests more in infrastructure, or at least transportation infrastructure, than Canada does. To me it seemed like Amsterdam or Rotterdam just had a lot more transportation infrastructure in total, including roads/highways (they have a surprisingly good freeway system), than similar Canadian cities. Their GDP is about $10,000 US per person higher than ours. Ontario is closer to Nova Scotia in per capita GDP than it is to the Netherlands. Perhaps some of this is chicken-and-egg and if Canada invested more in urban infrastructure it would have a higher GDP. I don't believe that urban investment in Canada has kept up with population growth.
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