The Decline and Fall of the Canadian State (w/ Nora Loreto)
Why can’t the government do stuff?
I’m not being facetious here. I think most Canadians — in fact, most people who live in western democracies — have a feeling that their governments are incapable of actually delivering on projects or providing services.
But it wasn’t always this way. There was an era, not so far back in the future, when the Canadian governments turned petrochemicals into plastics, dug uranium out of the ground, operated airlines and railroads and so much more.
But today, governments seem to be focused exclusively on two things: handing out money to big businesses and…
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