William Lyon Mackenzie King and Jack Granatstein

Advisory Council on Economic Growth: There a demand for rubber Create a Crown corporation!Historian Jack Granatstein has noted that in 1941 the government of William Lyon Mackenzie King had 107 dollar-a-year men — led by the cream of Canadian business — on its employment roster, according to The Toronto Star. And that Canadians would go on to win the economic war. Here it is, 2016, and we are in such a pickle — fiscally, monetarily — that Finance has revived the concept, naming Dominic Barton as chair of a new Advisory Council on Economic Growth for the annual sum of a dollar The yet-to-be-named council members will be similarly compensated, conjuring images of H. R. MacMillan and W.C. Woodward flying cross-country in turboprop planes bent on industrially advancing the country. This is war. Four weeks later Barton, global managing director of McKinsey & Co., has emerged as the point person on Trudeau pledge to spur long-term economic growth and nurture the middle class. And the good news is that the government of Justin Trudeau has harnessed Barton to be a leader in battle.I mentioned Barton in a column last month, when Trudeau, in his inaugural address at Davos, drew a chuckle from the crowd noting that at least half of this room has employed Dominic Barton at one point or another. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.