{"id":48923,"date":"2025-01-27T09:23:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/?p=48923"},"modified":"2025-06-11T09:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T13:08:54","slug":"department-chair-chris-worswick-publishes-opinion-piece-in-the-globe-and-mail-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/2025\/department-chair-chris-worswick-publishes-opinion-piece-in-the-globe-and-mail-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Department Chair Chris Worswick Publishes Opinion Piece in the Globe and Mail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Department Chair Chris Worswick Publishes Opinion Piece in the Globe and Mail\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Department Chair Chris Worswick published an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail titled &#8220;<em>If Ottawa botches the economy now, Canada might break apart.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is a quote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All of this points to a bitter truth: Our national unity crisis has cultural factors, but at the source of it are deep-seated economic issues \u2013 weaknesses that have been starkly brought to the fore with Mr. Trump\u2019s tariff threats. Division thrives when living standards are under threat, when people do not see their government protecting them from economic shocks. More than ever before, Canada must prioritize its economy, because if we do not, we risk the country falling apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the opinion piece on the Globe and Mail&#8217;s website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/business\/commentary\/article-if-ottawa-botches-the-economy-now-canada-might-break-apart\/?intcmp=gift_share\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Department Chair Chris Worswick published an opinion piece in the Globe and Mail titled &#8220;If Ottawa botches the economy now, Canada might break apart.&#8221; Here is a quote: All of this points to a bitter truth: Our national unity crisis has cultural factors, but at the source of it are deep-seated economic issues \u2013 weaknesses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36808,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48924,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48923\/revisions\/48924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/economics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}