Canadians think they are immune. I think it’s unlikely that a Poilievre government can institutionalize corruption as fealty and control in the way it appears that a new Trump admin is. He won’t need to in his (first?) term. /3
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But I think Canadians need to think about solutions rather than problems. Bureaucracies did not magically appear- they were a response to the corruption of court governments and governments based on patronage, which was Canada up until (at least) Borden. /3
(I know this is generous to bureaucracies. But try a court government. It is far far worse). Anyway, this is a long way of saying that I get chills when the conservatives scream ‘common sense!’ Government run by common sense is impossible and will result in a battleground where the whole game /4
… is to define ‘common sense.’ The person that does that is the person who leads the court. We do not want to play this game. Everybody loses, especially anyone who cares about accountability. /fin
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