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Terence Corcoran: Market freedom should be our ‘national interest’

Ottawa turns 'national interest' into a tool for mass economic intervention

In the Carney government’s Bill C-39 now making its way through Parliament, the chief justification for major transformations to Canada’s economic system is reduced to a simple concept. The dramatic economic interventions are said to be in “the national interest.” In C-39, the words “national interest” appear dozens of times, each serving as a justification for a form of government Canada has not seen since wartimes.

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For decades and even centuries, economic theorists, political philosophers and courts have criticized and even condemned the adoption of two meaningless political concepts as........

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