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The Lever: The Conservative Plan To Bring DOGE To Canada
Link: https://www.levernews.com/the-conservative-plan-to-bring-doge-to-canada
Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has been on a rampage inside the U.S. federal government, laying off hundreds of thousands of workers, dismantling programs that provide people with lifesaving vaccines and sparking nationwide protests amid steep cuts to the Department of Housing, Social Security, and other arms of government that help keep the country functioning.
Across the border in Canada, leading conservative voices and representatives from major tech and fossil fuel companies see much they admire. They believe the country should do its own version of DOGE and see potential to move faster than Musk in eviscerating the federal bureaucracy should Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who draws frequent comparisons to Trump, win Canada’s election on April 28.
“There’s no reason why we can’t move more quickly,” declared Ian Brodie, a University of Calgary professor who was chief of staff to former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, at the Canada Strong and Free Network Conference, a gathering of conservative movement leaders and allies in Ottawa this month.
Poilievre, who polls suggest is running in a close second behind Liberal leader and current prime minister Mark Carney, released a party platform this week promising to “trim bloated bureaucracy,” along with $75 billion in tax cuts. He said his government could cut 17,000 federal government jobs annually through attrition and “without mass layoffs.”
Brodie’s statement came from audio obtained of him speaking on a panel that included an executive from pipeline company TC Energy, a representative of Amazon Web Services, and a senior fellow at a libertarian think tank called the Macdonald Laurier Institute, which is part of a Virginia-based global coalition of free-market groups known as Atlas Network.
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Across the border in Canada, leading conservative voices and representatives from major tech and fossil fuel companies see much they admire. They believe the country should do its own version of DOGE and see potential to move faster than Musk in eviscerating the federal bureaucracy should Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre, who draws frequent comparisons to Trump, win Canada’s election on April 28.
“There’s no reason why we can’t move more quickly,” declared Ian Brodie, a University of Calgary professor who was chief of staff to former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, at the Canada Strong and Free Network Conference, a gathering of conservative movement leaders and allies in Ottawa this month.
Poilievre, who polls suggest is running in a close second behind Liberal leader and current prime minister Mark Carney, released a party platform this week promising to “trim bloated bureaucracy,” along with $75 billion in tax cuts. He said his government could cut 17,000 federal government jobs annually through attrition and “without mass layoffs.”
Brodie’s statement came from audio obtained of him speaking on a panel that included an executive from pipeline company TC Energy, a representative of Amazon Web Services, and a senior fellow at a libertarian think tank called the Macdonald Laurier Institute, which is part of a Virginia-based global coalition of free-market groups known as Atlas Network.
Excerpted from The Lever's weekly newsletter. This essay is authored by Geoff Dembicki.
Why does it seem like libertarians are EVERYWHERE these days? They're multiplying faster than rabbits!
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