Global anxiety about change best tackled by first helping families, says Morneau
MONTREAL — Finance Minister Bill Morneau said global public anxieties about trade, jobs and change can best be calmed by first getting citizens to buy into government efforts to help their families.
“There’s a raging fire in our populations,” he said Wednesday, pointing to the Brexit vote in Britain and American voter angst highlighted by presidential candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.
“People are concerned that technological change is causing challenges for themselves and for their families.”
He pointed to driverless trucks that threaten to one day curtail a big source of employment for many men and the declining number of receptionist positions.