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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 immigration…
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