Meghan, on Tuesday, April 15 there was an all-candidates’ meeting for Ottawa Centre riding at the Knox Presbyterian Church. The Wednesday before the debate I responded to a request for questions to the candidates with the following question: “In his book Value(s) Liberal Party leader Mark Carney endorsed the Average-Inflation Targeting framework introduced in August 2020 by the US Federal Reserve Board. The name is misleading as a true average-inflation targeting framework properly implemented would be compatible with meeting the 2% inflation target. The US Fed's framework was actually better described as inflation overshooting at the effective lower bound, a label from a later Bank of Canada research paper. As implemented in the US and Canada, it led to the highest inflation rates in more than forty years in both countries. Why should Canadians vote for a party whose leader endorsed such a disastrous policy?” I was told that my question was too long and to try to shorten it. I did and was told that my shortened version was acceptable. Here is a link to the video of the meeting and you can see that my question was not asked any time during the meeting, although many of the other questions were almost mind-numbingly parochial:
In June 2022, 15 months after Carney published “Value(s)”, the Canadian CPI inflation rate hit 8.1%, its highest reading, adjusting for improvements in measurement bias, since December 1982. This was inflation overshooting with a vengeance! The suppression of my question from the debate hardly compares to the travails you have suffered with your debanking, but surely it is another worrying sign of where Canada is now at after almost a decade of Liberal rule.
Meghan this may be the source of you getting debanked by government order, ie the BC government
https://open.substack.com/pub/captroyharkness/p/sos-province-in-canada-has-fallen
Meghan, on Tuesday, April 15 there was an all-candidates’ meeting for Ottawa Centre riding at the Knox Presbyterian Church. The Wednesday before the debate I responded to a request for questions to the candidates with the following question: “In his book Value(s) Liberal Party leader Mark Carney endorsed the Average-Inflation Targeting framework introduced in August 2020 by the US Federal Reserve Board. The name is misleading as a true average-inflation targeting framework properly implemented would be compatible with meeting the 2% inflation target. The US Fed's framework was actually better described as inflation overshooting at the effective lower bound, a label from a later Bank of Canada research paper. As implemented in the US and Canada, it led to the highest inflation rates in more than forty years in both countries. Why should Canadians vote for a party whose leader endorsed such a disastrous policy?” I was told that my question was too long and to try to shorten it. I did and was told that my shortened version was acceptable. Here is a link to the video of the meeting and you can see that my question was not asked any time during the meeting, although many of the other questions were almost mind-numbingly parochial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTrW38nXHsE
In June 2022, 15 months after Carney published “Value(s)”, the Canadian CPI inflation rate hit 8.1%, its highest reading, adjusting for improvements in measurement bias, since December 1982. This was inflation overshooting with a vengeance! The suppression of my question from the debate hardly compares to the travails you have suffered with your debanking, but surely it is another worrying sign of where Canada is now at after almost a decade of Liberal rule.