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VUONG: Canadians need to stop cutting down our tall poppies

Canada would be infinitely better off if entrepreneurs and job creators had even an ounce of the influence their critics imagine they have

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Canada has a productivity problem. We also have a personality problem, and they’re essentially the same problem.

Last week, the CEO of Canada’s most valuable company – Shopify –replied to a stranger’s thought experiment on X with two words: “Good system.”

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That was it. There was no manifesto. No bill. No campaign. It was simply a retired banker floating the idea of weighting votes by income tax paid. Tobi Lütke literally typed two words.

Within days, it was spun into a national emergency. Our public broadcaster ran it as a story about a billionaire who wants to strip the poor and the elderly of the franchise. A Toronto Metropolitan University “expert” was produced to explain that people with that kind of wealth are out of touch and think they should be calling the shots. Then the closing lecture, delivered right on cue: get out and vote, before men like him decide for you.

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