Re: “Our big, fat public sector”

In response to Our big, fat public sector, published October, 7, 2009.

Samuel Swanson’s article in the Oct. 8 issue of The Uniter (page 4) implies that I was interviewed for his story. In fact, I was never interviewed.  My words were taken from a 2005 article of mine published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives-Manitoba.

If I’d been asked about the study from the Frontier Centre for Public Policy that is the focus of Swanson’s article, I would have pointed out what he fails to tell Uniter readers:  the Frontier Centre is a very right-wing organization that favours giving free reign to capitalist market forces that have enormous negative effects on people and the Earth’s ecosystems.

David Camfield
Associate Professor, Labour Studies
University of Manitoba

– David Camfield

Published in Volume 64, Number 9 of The Uniter (October 29, 2009)