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Friday, October 3, 2014

Unable and unwilling to govern

Author Donald Gutstein reveals extent of Stephen Harper revolution in new book Harperism

He’s gradually moving the country from one that’s based on democracy to one that’s based on the market, which means that the decisions are not made by our duly elected representatives through the laws that they pass and the regulations that they enact,” Gutstein says.

When asked for an example, the bearded intellectual m...entions the temporary-foreign-worker program. That’s because it advances the notion that employers, and not the government, should determine who immigrates to Canada under a market-based system.

Another example is free-market environmentalism, which was developed by the neoliberal Pacific Research Institute in San Francisco and has been embraced by the Vancouver-based Fraser Institute.
According to Gutstein, the objective of FME is to have environmental issues addressed by markets rather than through government regulation.

https://www.straight.com/life/741201/author-donald-gutstein-reveals-extent-stephen-harper-revolution-new-book-harperism

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