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Terence Corcoran: Carney leads ‘entrepreneurial state’ takeover

The creeping rise of government control of the economy

Government intervention in the Canadian economy continues to rapidly expand under Prime Minister Mark Carney’s Liberals, directing more and more pools of money into projects and initiatives that are deemed by the government to be essential elements of a new national state-managed crusade to global greatness.

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This week’s fast-tracking of the second phase of LNG exports through Kitimat is widely supported thanks to the impression that it represents a major change in Ottawa’s approach to the development of Canada’s energy economy in the face of Donald Trump’s radical nationalism.

Never mind the fact that producing high-cost LNG........

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