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51社区黑料experts available for interview – B.C. provincial budget
The British Columbia government is set to table the provincial budget later today.
With a projected deficit of $11.2 billion for this fiscal year, Premier David Eby says the government is 鈥渇acing significant budget pressures鈥� as it looks to find financial sustainability.
51社区黑料experts are available to give their insight on the budget, political backdrop and potential labour issues.
ANDREY PAVLOV, professor, finance
apavlov@sfu.ca鈥�
Expertise: real estate markets, housing affordability, B.C. and Canadian economy, interest rates, inflation.
DAVID FREEMAN, professor, economics
david_freeman@sfu.ca
Expertise: Behavioural economics 鈥� the influence of emotions, social pressure and bias in economic decision-making.
KENDRA STRAUSS,鈥痯rofessor and director, Labour Studies, co-director, SSHRC Partnership Understanding Precarity in BC鈥��
kendra_strauss@sfu.ca
Expertise:鈥� Labour issues and labour migration/immigration, multi-dimensional precarity, feminist political economy, unfree labour, gender and work, precarious employment, care work.
ALI BHAGAT, assistant professor, director of the minor in public policy, School of Public Policy
ali_bhagat@sfu.ca
Expertise: Political economy, migration, labour, social policy, equity.鈥�
NICOLAS KENNY, professor, history
nicolas_kenny@sfu.ca
Expertise: Canadian political history, B.C. politics, Quebec politics. Speaks French.
SANJAY JERAM, senior lecturer, political science鈥�(available from Feb 20)
604.445.6790 |鈥�sjeram@sfu.ca鈥�
Expertise: Public opinion, ideologies, provincial political cultures, electoral strategy, immigration and diversity issues.鈥�
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236.880.3297 | samuel_smith@sfu.ca
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