Mark Carney vergleicht seinen Staatsfonds mit dem Norwegens. Die Kanadier sind klug genug, zu erkennen, dass es nicht dasselbe ist
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/mark-carney-compares-his-sovereign-wealth-fund-to-norways-canadians-are-smart-enough-to-see-its-far-worse/article_465e4b7e-5017-45d8-a22c-1eb5374bddfe.html
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It’s not the same but I don’t think it could possibly be the same for a few reasons. Provinces control natural resources. Norway invests mostly outside of Norway but I think the optics of investing outside of Canada would look bad right now because of the Elbow positioning. The main reason IMO to criticize this sovereign wealth fund is that we aren’t funding it by taxing the wealthy.
It’s nice to know our prime minister thinks we are as stupid as Americans. I guess the conservatives haven’t cut enough funding for education for this to work yet.
How come every article critical of Carney comes from The Star? I’m all for criticizing politicians (especially the ones I like, such as Carney) but it’s interesting that it’s always the same source here.
It’s like we, as a nation, only have one topic at a time. This is the week that launched a thousand op ed’s about the sovereign wealth fund. last week we were a nation of experts on (and piles of op ed’s opposing) high speed rail. before that, of course, there was the f-35s
Maybe it’s kind of nice compared to the scattershot of insanity that daily comes from the nation next door, but I’ve been finding the single topic focus across news outlets interesting
It’s obvious it is not the same and the name is a depletion, that does not mean it is a bad idea until we get more details.
He’s starting to remind me of that old espression. „When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.“
His government seems obsessed with creative accounting. Redrawing the balance sheets in ways they think will look more palatable to voters.
He is selling our assets to fund it. Just lost my vote. I am tired of politicians selling off infrastructure that tax dollars built. If there is profit to be made it should be run for the benefit of Canadians. FFS. Bad management. Tired of getting ripped off.
I’m definitely looking side-eyed at this fund, but at the same time, whenever someone tries to tell me „Canadians are smart enough to do X“, I am automatically on alert for a specious and motivated argument.
In this case, despite the country’s name appearing eight times in the article, there is no direct quote (at least in this article) where Carney makes any kind of comparison to Norway.
The article makes the claim that he „evokes“ Norway’s fund, and then labours to dismantle that evocation.
It’s garbage journalism. Yeah, Canadians are smart enough not to think this is a carbon copy of Norway’s sovereign fund, because nobody is telling Canadians it is meant to be one except those interested in attacking it.
From my understanding, Carney’s sovereign wealth fund is essentially a way of trying to de-risk private investment into major infrastructure projects. This is done to make these projects more attractive to private capital, by essentially offloading the risk for these investments onto the general public.
This is different from the Norwegian model which takes the states oil and gas revenue & invests it & uses the returns to fund social programs.
From Carney’s perspective, this „de-risking“ strategy is necessary because otherwise private capital simply won’t invest in these projects. But it begs the question of why we are putting ourselves in the situation where we need private capital to build our infrastructure in the first place.
A couple generations ago, the answer would have been to simply tax the rich sufficiently & then use those proceeds to build out necessary infrastructure as a state owned asset.
So for anybody who is upset about wealth inequality in this country, this will be offensive because its basically socialism for the rich. Public risk/private profit.
At the same time, this should also be offensive to anyone who loves free markets because this is also quiet literally not that.