text: Finally a great and hard hitting article by Miss Wente.
  What's driving the inequality? 
  
  I disagree with her quote from Ms Freelands book....”One set of causes is political, she explains – lower taxes, deregulation, privatization. Many of these political factors can be broadly lumped under the category "crony capitalism”
  Someone should apprise me if I’m wrong but we have yet to see lower taxes and deregulation here in Canada.
  
  More appropriately , free trade has hollowed out our middle class, reduced our wage growth and turned our economy into hewers Of wood and providers of  low paying service jobs.
  
  And it’s getting worse under this bumbling and corrupt Govt  Which increasing taxes, adding regulations like carbon taxes that make us less competitive and removing/ capping incentives like the TFSA permit our millenials to put away a bit of cash for a rainy day.
  
  Minimum wages both here in Canada and the US have yet to exceed what they were 45 years ago.
  
  That’s why..