Stronach: "the government cannot give you anything it has not taken from you first"

The trouble with CEO conservatives William Watson

[. . . . Belinda Stronach said she believed] "in a smaller government and a more decentralized government. And Liberals believe in slightly larger government, and there's a good saying -- that the government cannot give you anything it has not taken from you first." [. . . . ]

Paul Martin is a former CEO, too, and he's an inveterate meddler. Early childhood education, R&D, machinery and equipment, science and technology: Put our money there and there and there and things will really roll.

To make the economy roll, you need to get out of the way and let it happen. If a government really were fixated on reducing marginal tax rates, Canadians' desire to better their standard of living would automatically generate economic growth. We may not get that kind of government from the new, centrist Conservative party. We certainly won't get it from ex-CEOs Stronach and Martin.