Queen’s University economics professor Tom Courchene is available to talk about the U.S. debt ceiling crisis and its implications on Canada.

Dr. Courchene is the former director of the Institute of Intergovernmental Relations at Queen's University (2007 to 2010). He has written and edited more than 60 books on a wide variety of Canadian public policy issues and is a past president of the Canadian Economics Association.

He is available for phone interviews only.

To arrange an interview, please contact communication officer Christina Archibald at 613-533-2877 or christina.archibald@queensu.ca at Queen’s University News and Media Services Department in Kingston, Ont., Canada.

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