Talk:Economic history of Canada

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I think we need more pictures (99.226.69.43 (talk) 23:02, 22 November 2007 (UTC))[reply]

I would like to point out that the article says "Like the United States, Canada remained in depression far longer" however it gives no context. Must be revised. Benstordy (talk) 00:31, 13 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The section on the recessions is factually wrong. A recession didn't occur in the late 80s and 1994, the only two recessions (by the definition of recession - decline in real GDP for two consecutive quarters) in Canada since 1980 have been 1980-81 and 1991-92. Not even the "almost-recession" of 2001 counts here. Someone with more knowledge than I should touch this up. Cdanek (talk) 17:15, 20 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have removed the graph displaying the basic needs poverty rate. The debate over which poverty measure is more valid, and the generally greater use of the low-income cut off means that displaying one graph would mislead the reader. Additionally, there is no accompanying text explaining the graph. I have added a brief paragraph that summarizes the main points of the Poverty in Canada article and provided a link to it. That article should be the main source about poverty as an issue given this one is about economic history. The graphs of both poverty measures are available in that article. Mft1 (talk) 02:53, 9 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The article Forest exploitation in canada should be merged into the Timber sectin of this article because there is a) considerable overlap and b) the article Forest exploitation is poorly translated from the French wiki article on the topic. NtheP (talk) 15:40, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]

No comments so merged. NtheP (talk) 14:37, 11 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think someone with more knowledge of the matter or Wikipedia policies than me needs to clean up the obvious bias in the Confederation section. For example:

The representatives of the Upper Canada included John A McDonald, a Mason and Alexander Galt, the finance minister, who imposed a tariff that hurt the Maritimes. The Charlottetown Conference in 1864 was meant to discuss Maritime union. But John A McDonald took over. Although there are no records of the discussions, we know that the first 4 of 5 days was spent by the Upper Canadians dominating the talks. Sir Lenord Tillety of Saint John was booted out of office after Saint Johners showed their disapproval and reservation about the Union. They knew that a much larger province would dominate the Confederation. They were correct. Saint John has been on a 140 year slide down the economic ladder since confederation.[citation needed] (Saint John: How Politics Killed a Boom Town by Paul T E Cusack 2010 LULU)

--Mr. Snow (talk) 21:21, 18 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I think the population history table is very useful--economic historians talk a lot about population growth. Rjensen (talk) 04:10, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

thanks--I added the cite from Marr and Peterson. Rjensen (talk) 08:04, 5 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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