"We believe a greater portion of resource revenues needs to be re-invested in creating the new economy Canada will need going forward. There are several ways we could do this, all of them well-tested."
"We need now to look at how do we take the revenues from those pipelines, the rent that Canada can get from those pipelines, and invest them in new, higher quality, higher growth jobs in order to push up those human capital investments," Vaughan, a former commissioner of the environment and sustainable development, said."
"A comprehensive measure of Canada's national wealth shows it has been stagnant for decades and is too heavily dependent on housing and oil and gas, says a groundbreaking national report by the International Institute for Sustainable Development."
Scott Vaughan explains to CBC Power and Politics' Rosemary Barton why Canada should adopt a 'comprehensive wealth' approach. (Clip begins at 1:16:45).
Peter Van Dusen (CPAC) speaks to Scott Vaughan and Robert Smith about what a 'comprehensive wealth' approach can reveal about Canada's progress. Clip starts at 19:20.