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Canada’s Demographic Time Bomb: What Boom, Bust & Echo Got Right
Canada’s housing crisis. Youth unemployment. Immigration debates. A broken healthcare system.
What if we told you a book published in 1996 predicted almost all of it?
In this episode of The Missing Middle, Cara Stern and Mike Moffatt revisit the Canadian classic Boom, Bust & Echo to explore how demographics, especially the aging of the baby boomers, reshaped Canada’s economy, housing market, job prospects, and public policy.
We break down:
• Why youth unemployment was a policy choice
• How demographics quietly drive housing prices
• What governments got right — and very wrong
• Why…
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