Friedman quoter<\/a>, is going to have to come from lower taxes and deregulation. In other words, Poilievre won\u2019t be able to achieve the Canada that he wants for workers and consumers without growth-oriented, traditionally pro-business policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\nThere will no doubt be instances\u2014like weighing whether to approve a merger or takeover or deciding whether to legislate workers back to their jobs\u2014where free market principles will have to be weighed against competing common goods like national security or labour rights. And of course, if a company\u2019s idea of pro-business policy is for the government to preserve protected regulatory status, tax treatment, or a funding envelope, then that is an argument for crony capitalism, not a growth agenda. Business leaders may need to come to terms with not being the heroes of a potential Poilievre government\u2019s economic story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
After all, prioritizing the interests of a small elite is part of how our country got into this mess. But casual watchers should not mistake Poilievre\u2019s distaste for corporate Canada\u2019s trendier priorities with a fundamental discomfort with free market capitalism. In fact, it\u2019s the opposite. For Poilievre, fiscal conservatism and economic populism aren\u2019t incompatible, they\u2019re a match made in heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Prioritizing the interests of a small elite is part of how our country got into this mess. But casual watchers should not mistake Poilievre\u2019s distaste for corporate Canada\u2019s trendier priorities with a fundamental discomfort with free market capitalism. In fact, it\u2019s the opposite. For Poilievre, fiscal conservatism and economic populism aren\u2019t incompatible, they\u2019re a match made in heaven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":75984,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2024-03-12T10:00:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"96fc9c47-f264-46f6-8e9f-209567455a63","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2024-03-12T10:00:24Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AlvycR_JkRvaOnyCVZ0VaYw","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":"","_custom_css":"","_custom_scss":""},"categories":[30,66,64,6],"tags":[],"hub_format":[2],"thefutureofnews":[],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75977"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76126,"href":"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75977\/revisions\/76126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75977"},{"taxonomy":"format","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hub_format?post=75977"},{"taxonomy":"thefutureofnews","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehub.ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thefutureofnews?post=75977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}