Kim Siever

David Cochrane: Are you saying trade unions should be involved in the economic forecast? Avi Lewis: Why not? Labour economists are really important for understanding things that bank economists don't see.

François-Philippe Champagne on privatization: "I think the way we have approached federal assets, public assets in this country needs to evolve ... for example ports or other assets... there might be more value for a different type of structure of ownership with respect to some of these assets."

Avi Lewis: "Look at the beginning of this document and all of the bankers at the banquet who are the private sector economists on whose forecasts everything is built. Where are the trade unions... where are the representatives of working-class people?"