{"id":111657,"date":"2022-04-07T09:03:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=111657"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:07:59","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:07:59","slug":"does-the-budget-address-our-wellbeing-or-only-a-growing-gdp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/does-the-budget-address-our-wellbeing-or-only-a-growing-gdp\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the federal budget address our wellbeing, or only a growing GDP? | Commentary"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>By John Challis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National news media have been filling a lot of space speculating on what will be included in the upcoming federal budget\u2014and pontificating on what they think should be included. In the April 3 issue of <em>The Globe and Mail<\/em>, reporters spent a great deal of time frothing about GDP. A chart was prominently placed showing that Canada\u2019s projected real GDP per capita growth rate was the worst among 38 countries.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Why they chose that chart is a puzzle. The top four in terms of growth rate were Turkey, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In terms of static GDP, Canada ranks tenth&nbsp;in a list of 190 countries, well ahead of the other three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not uncommon for government and the media to focus on GDP as the main indicator of the nation\u2019s health. So what is this enigmatic acronym, and why is it so obsessively referred to?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m no economist. I had to read up on GDP myself. It stands for gross domestic product. To my thinking, people like it because it\u2019s an easy measurement to use\u2014and it has an advantageous malleability. (Exhibit A: the <em>Globe\u2019s<\/em> chart.) It\u2019s used by government opposition who are never happy with Canada\u2019s GDP, and it\u2019s used by governments who praise themselves for the work they\u2019re doing to improve GDP. It simplifies the job of reporting on economic policy for journalists short of time and resources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gross domestic product, as a concept, was developed in the early 20<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;century. But it wasn\u2019t until the Second World War that it took hold of economists\u2019 imagination. John Maynard Keynes refined the idea while working for the UK government. He used it as a measurement to calculate the country\u2019s true potential for building its defences against the Nazis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GDP is not much more than a sum; it adds up all the spending in the country, government included. It measures output of cars and steel mills and banks and home appliances, and how much gets spent on hospitals and police and prisons and military\u2014and all the other things that a society needs. It only goes up if production is rising in the business world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s another reason for its popularity; it is a prod for government to support business. If business grows, so do people\u2019s lives, so the thinking goes, and as a result GDP is now considered a measure of a society\u2019s wellbeing (even though it was never intended to measure wellbeing).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But It\u2019s a funny kind of tool. When women entered the workforce in large numbers, the GDP took off, because suddenly there were new demands for child care, home cleaning, and other household services\u2014and a new segment of the population had disposable income. Before that, the work of women in the home counted for nothing in the GDP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And therein lies a problem. GDP fails to measure many important things. It fails to show whether people\u2019s lives are actually better, or if indeed we are happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Health experts have identified a number of key factors for people\u2019s wellbeing and sense of worth. They include income, leisure time, personal value of work, education, cultural and community supports, accessible, affordable food, and a clean environment. Grouped together they are called the social determinants of health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our booming, growing economy seems to have come at the expense of all those determinants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before the mental strain of the pandemic, families were strained because their household debt had risen dramatically since the 1990s. Now, with interest rates beginning to tip uphill, the strain will only increase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s been an exodus from the city sparked by the pandemic. But the pandemic exposed the qualities of a city that make life less rewarding: the long commutes, the shortage of green space, the rising threat of violence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wages have been losing ground to the cost of living for many years. The percentage of Canadians earning below-average salaries is somewhere near 60 per cent. The one per cent, as we well know, are heading in the opposite direction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada\u2019s government actually produced a policy during the pandemic that showed social determinants can be addressed. The Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) offered monthly cheques to people who were laid off during the worst of the COVID-19 lockdowns. It prevented financial failure for many, and it also kept the economy moving forward at a rate that surprised many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the federal budget does anything, it could show that the government has learned that GDP has never been the right tool for measuring the country\u2019s success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>John Challis is a writer and editor living in Washago. 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