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Predictable Path and Don Drummond

Don Drummond: However, the mandate was framed for each initiative, the findings often followed a predictable path, with a myriad of recommendations designed to improve lagging productivity, open borders and diversify the economy, according to The Chronicle Herald. Don Drummond, who led the 2009 federal labour market information panel of which I was a member, captured it perfectly when he called one morning two years after our report had been released to say in mock excitement: Elizabeth they have now accepted three of our 147 recommendations and Over the course of my career as an economist, I have contributed to the work of many economic commissions in Canada. The weighty reports were invariably mulled over by governments, and then often quietly shelved. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.