Prime Minister Stephen Harper: Leslie Shiell

Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty Dept: It is seems unthinkable that Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty poured $10.5 billion into a historic bailout of the once-mighty carmakers. All they talk about today is the danger of debt, according to The Star. Their answers: Yes and yes and it seems hard to believe the North American auto industry was on the brink of collapse three years ago. Today the Big 3 General Motors , Chrysler and Ford are doing fine, setting sales records, making healthy profits and opening plants as if the crisis had never occurred. Was the massive rescue package worth the cost? And should governments continue to subsidize the automotive sector? Those were the questions the Institute for Research on Public Policy , a government-endowed think-tank, posed to two free market economists, Leslie Shiell from the University of Ottawa and Robin Somerville of the Centre for Spatial Economics, a private consulting firm. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.