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Mel Watkins. Controls usually mean wage controls more than price controls because wages are easier to control
Mel Watkins. Controls usually mean wage controls more than price controls because wages are easier to control

Mel Watkins. Controls usually mean wage controls more than price controls because wages are easier to control

Date3/24/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: Mel Watkins. Controls usually mean wage controls more than price controls because wages are easier to control.
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Pierre Trudeau hammering Conservative policies of wage and price controls in the 1974 campaign
Pierre Trudeau hammering Conservative policies of wage and price controls in the 1974 campaign
6/28/1974
Anti-inflation board chairman Jean-Luc Pepin feels the government's wage and price controls program has been a relative success-in fact, far beyond my(...)
Anti-inflation board chairman Jean-Luc Pepin feels the government's wage and price controls program has been a relative success-in fact, far beyond my(...)
10/14/1976
Crowding around labor minister John Munro, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees questioned him about wage and price controls after his sp(...)
Crowding around labor minister John Munro, members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees questioned him about wage and price controls after his sp(...)
10/21/1975
My job is to explain wage and price controls to those who see them as unnecessary government intervention, says Conservative incumbent Ron Atkey. His (...)
My job is to explain wage and price controls to those who see them as unnecessary government intervention, says Conservative incumbent Ron Atkey. His (...)
6/4/1974
Viewpoint on wage controls is illustrated by 2 of the 12,000 marchers in yesterday's Labor Day parade at the Canadian National Exhibition. They wear c(...)
Viewpoint on wage controls is illustrated by 2 of the 12,000 marchers in yesterday's Labor Day parade at the Canadian National Exhibition. They wear c(...)
9/6/1976
Labor Day protest. End wage controls, Pilkey says
Labor Day protest. End wage controls, Pilkey says
2/24/1981
Jack Biddell: Former Anti-Inflation Board commissioner has devised a wage and price control system he describes as more sensible and less painful than the previous version
Jack Biddell: Former Anti-Inflation Board commissioner has devised a wage and price control system he describes as more sensible and less painful than the previous version
1/31/1980
Controls urged: NDP Leader Ed Broadbent says that interest rates have to come down to creat jobs, and controls should be introduced to stop investment money leaving the country
Controls urged: NDP Leader Ed Broadbent says that interest rates have to come down to creat jobs, and controls should be introduced to stop investment money leaving the country
2/5/1982
After meeting with his cabinet to discuss the new federal controls on prices and earnings, Premier William Davis talks with reporters at Queen's Park (...)
After meeting with his cabinet to discuss the new federal controls on prices and earnings, Premier William Davis talks with reporters at Queen's Park (...)
10/14/1975
Beef cattle head for slaughte ryesterday at the Ontario Stock yards, where the price dropped dramatically after Ottawa announced controls on the expor(...)
Beef cattle head for slaughte ryesterday at the Ontario Stock yards, where the price dropped dramatically after Ottawa announced controls on the expor(...)
8/13/1973
W. H. Thornburn, chairman of the Toronto Stock Exchange board of governors, sees a small revival of confidence by Canadian investors, but much less than I had expected by this time. He forecasts continued sluggishness in trading until corporate earnings improve. Thornburn thinks there could be new speculation in oil and gas stocks when results of winter drilling become available. Cost-cutting and other controls have prepared brokers for any new storms, he says.
W. H. Thornburn, chairman of the Toronto Stock Exchange board of governors, sees a small revival of confidence by Canadian investors, but much less than I had expected by this time. He forecasts continued sluggishness in trading until corporate earnings improve. Thornburn thinks there could be new speculation in oil and gas stocks when results of winter drilling become available. Cost-cutting and other controls have prepared brokers for any new storms, he says.
12/31/1970
Alan Lamport controller and former Toronto mayor: I am very much in favor of party politics in municipal affairs, but in order to have it work on the party system, as it does federally and provincially, legislation would have to be provided for the jurisdiction of operation and the controls - but keeping cost within reason and operation administration problems under control
Alan Lamport controller and former Toronto mayor: I am very much in favor of party politics in municipal affairs, but in order to have it work on the party system, as it does federally and provincially, legislation would have to be provided for the jurisdiction of operation and the controls - but keeping cost within reason and operation administration problems under control
3/1/1969