Crony Capitalism

Government is pushing demand through subsidies. Where does the free market go now?

I joined my colleague, Jamie Schmale, MP for Haliburton—Kawartha Lakes—Brock, as his guest on The Blueprint podcast, to discuss hefty government subsidies to industry for uncertain outcomes at best. This government has a vision of a fully-electric economy in the near-term, and is shoveling money into that basket, but they haven’t fully taken account of the consequences, let alone measurable outcomes.