Tyler Meredith

@tylermeredith

News and public policy junkie. Sr Policy Advisor to the Liberal Caucus. Ex economic & social policy for PM Justin Trudeau. Opinions expressed my own.

Ottawa, Ontario
Joined July 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    22 Nov 2018

    A growing middle class ✅ More full time jobs being created, faster than under Harper. ✅ Real wages rising at fastest pace in nearly a decade. ✅ Biggest $ gains going to low & mid income. ✅ Unemployment at 40yr low and more people finding work than ever before.

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  2. 2 hours ago

    All net job gains in 2018 were full time jobs.

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  3. 9 hours ago

    If you automatically reject Statcan data without reading it, when you ask for evidence to validate something, there’s really no point in a dialogue. You will forever live with your priors. Be well.

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  4. 9 hours ago

    Hi Steve - you’ll see here there were 550,000 job vacancies open and waiting to be filled in Q2 2018 (latest data). That’s a record high. Neither Montreal, Toronto, nor Vancouver appear in the top 10 regions with the fastest growing vacancies.

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  5. Retweeted

    From low tax rates to a wealth of diversified talent, 🇨🇦 is the among the best countries for business. Check out why now is the time to :

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  6. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    This is a great personal story of the direct impact the Canada Child Benefit is making in the lives of middle class families 👇

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  7. 16 hours ago

    Hi Paul - I think it’s good news that 185,000 Canadians are now working in full time jobs that weren’t 12 months ago.

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    Small business owner, dedicated community leader, mother of two, and the candidate for - Meet 🇨🇦

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  9. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    The Liberals have chosen Karen Wang, a local daycare business owner, to take on NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh in the Burnaby South byelection. Wang says her strong ties to the community put her at an advantage.

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    The head of Petronas calls Canada the company's "second heartland." RT Petronas bets big in Canada to meet Asian LNG demand via

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  11. Jan 4

    For context - PM Harper didn’t initiate the payment of direct benefits to parents. That mainly started in 1945 with the Family Allowance. Succesive governments have made many changes to the design, purpose and structure of benefits since then.

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  12. Jan 4

    Pricing pollution works. It’s partly how acid rain ended. If concern is business, listen : “We support the price mechanism because it provides the economic incentive...for businesses to invest in technologies that progressively reduce their emissions over time”

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    Canada will have an important debate about how to tackle the pollution that causes climate change in 2019. The plan is based on the best available economics and science. The plan does not (yet) exist.

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  14. Jan 4

    . on the how the job market performed in 2018: “In the 12 months to December, employment increased by 163,000 (+0.9%), entirely driven by gains in full-time work (+185,000 or +1.2%)”.

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  15. Jan 4

    This is a great personal story of the direct impact the Canada Child Benefit is making in the lives of middle class families 👇

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  16. Jan 4

    Hi Miles - as someone who worked in the think tank community I can tell you the previous govt did not have the unanimous support you speak of. Why? Becuase it was a bad policy that didn’t protect poor people. We’ve saved seniors who can’t work 2 more years up to $36k in benefits.

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    With respect - Canada Child Benefit is absolutely not same as your plan to give $ to millionaires and the previous more complex system. CCB is simpler, tax free, helps more & is actually progressive. Your ⬆️ to age of eligibility for OAS/GIS was bad. It hurt poorer people most.

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  18. Retweeted
    Jan 3

    Hi Steve - we have exempted fuels used on farm and for fishers. Also provided extra 10% on Climate Action Incentive for households in rural & small communities . As someone with lots of farming relatives, I can tell you we get that reality

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  19. Jan 3

    Universality versus targeting is not a minor difference. Sorry.

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  20. Jan 3

    With respect - Canada Child Benefit is absolutely not same as your plan to give $ to millionaires and the previous more complex system. CCB is simpler, tax free, helps more & is actually progressive. Your ⬆️ to age of eligibility for OAS/GIS was bad. It hurt poorer people most.

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  21. Jan 3

    Hi Leon - We took our platform and for the first time at the federal level, turned those into public ministerial mandate letters. Which you can read Every month we update our progress on those commitments A new bar of transparency

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