This initial release of the Perspectives Journal sets up the arena for debate among the progressive left of ideas and their applications for a more equal and just Canada. A guiding thesis behind this new publication that’s come to light since the passing of Ed Broadbent, comes from Ed’s very own dissertation entitled The Good Society of John Stuart Mill. This journal’s first release alongside the Broadbent Institute’s 2024 Progress Summit, with the thematic title Making the Good Society, looks to survey this idea taken from Ed’s conclusion that:
“[…] it is clear in principle that only a collectively owned economy can avoid exploitation, and thus make the good society realizable. It remains to be seen whether a nation, while rejecting Mill’s normative economics, can retain his other social values, and so make the co-operative individualist life a reality.”
Ownership of housing is becoming increasingly concentrated in the hands of wealthy Canadians, fostering a worsening status quo for everyone else.
There is no pan-Indigenous legal order and no pan-Indigenous response to questions of Indigenous citizenship. The determination of these questions must always be according to a specific legal order, laws, and legal process.
The origin of the concept of central bank independence is a critique of social democratic ideas prevalent during the middle part of Friedman’s career.
Now is the time for the democratic left in Canada to develop a workable and comprehensive version of basic income as a key policy instrument, and not a sideline consideration.
This initial release of the Perspectives Journal sets up the arena for debate among the progressive left of ideas and their applications for a more equal and just Canada.
