It’s Harper’s council, not Flaherty’s since Harper would not allow independent thinking or pronouncements from any of his Ministers.
This is a very ‘business oriented’ team. It seems like there is two fold thinking behind the selections. One is that this isn’t a group formed to deal with a national economic crises, but a group to address business recovery. In a situation where we may need out of the box thinking, this group defines the box. The second string to Harper’s bow is that this is a ‘bi-partisan’ group, in the sense that it looks there is involvement from Liberal and Conservative supporters. This serves the partisan purpose of deflating support for the coalition and keeping Harper in power.
In other words this is small minded thinking from a narrow thinking man.
If one were to try and predict the kind of advice that this group will come up with, a focus on big business support and tax breaks for the rich seem likely. Union busting legislation probably won’t be far behind. It could easily be a case of disaster capitalism. We have a disaster and Harper is reaching for the ideas that are on his shelf.
Oh, my poor Canada.
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