James Moore
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3,438 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 15 Sep
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the real cost of things causes everybody to run to the hills and we get nowhere.
I don't
Th this is the pivot I think, Peter, that has to happen in public policy.
And I'd like to see more of it, right?
As opposed to the hand to hand combat on specific commodities and all that that often happens in politics because there happens to be a big story on C B C about the cost of coffee or the cost of of produce or the cost of lettuce in the north or or whatever.
Um, but actually have a broader conversation because prices should kind of go up over time.
It's expected to do that.
But what it but you know
Real incomes minus the consumer price index, there's your vector of of the capacity of the affordability crisis, right?
So if the cost of groceries is going up, I think this year I was looking at some numbers, it's four and a four point seven percent year over year, or month over month over month, year over year for like November to November of twenty-four to twenty-five.
So they're going up five percent.
And that's like a five percent escalator over and over and over uh every every quarter.
Um then that's utterly unsustainable because Canada's GDP is barely cracking 1%, and household incomes we know adjusted for um uh for uh for population growth.
Um that can real GDP for everyday families is going down or it's flatlined for the past five or ten years.
So so people have less money to spend relative to the cost of things.
So the question is, yes, on the commodity side, whether it's a house or
or produce or or tax uh textile items or whatever, we have to deal with those issues and getting more competition, more supply, et cetera.
All that's true.
On the other hand, we gotta get our incomes up.
We've got to get the economy going.
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