The story reads like a joke. An April Fools prank. It’s as if the Ontario Liberal government’s Socialist Asses-in-Chief, Finance Minister Michael Bryant and his leader Premier Dalton McGuinty, are mocking me and all normal, free Canadians, and everything we stand for as free people. But it’s not a joke. It’s “progressive” socialism and, arguably more accurately, liberal fascism.
National Post reports on the latest creep of socialism this morning, now apparently almost totally unfazed by this latest turn of events in our country away from what made us great —away from free market capitalism and freedom generally; not even following it up with an editorial:
Ontario to ‘invest’ up to $2B in business
‘REVERSE REAGANISM’ It’s government as entrepreneur, Minister saysTORONTO • Ontario’s Liberal government is looking to get into business, says Economic Development Minister Michael Bryant, who yesterday heralded the dawn of a new era of government intervention.
“The state has got to be strategic and if that’s the case, then we need to act as an entrepreneur and invest directly in businesses,” Mr. Bryant told a luncheon crowd in Toronto.
“This is government choosing winners and losers. This is supposed to be the thing that governments weren’t supposed to do. But this is the business that we are in.”
Mr. Bryant called the new philosophy “reverse Reaganism,” in reference to the former U.S. president who once declared: “Government is not the solution to the problem. Government is the problem.”
“It’s preposterous to imagine that government in this century or last century is not the most impactful institution in our day-to-day lives outside of the family,” he said, calling the new role “government as entrepreneur.”
Ontario last week joined the federal Conservatives and the U.S. government to announce a $15-billion loan to help Chrysler survive bankruptcy. In return for its $3-billion, Ontario and the federal government will receive a two per cent ownership stake in the new company.
Mr. Bryant said the province will now move beyond bailouts and will invest in healthy companies with growth potential. …
A few months ago I’d have been shocked if there weren’t an insurrection of some kind. But now I expect nothing to happen. As I’ve said before, this drift to the far, extreme left is happening much faster than I expected. I’d expected a backlash.
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