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Thirty-five years ago the policies that now define democratic governance – or rather anti-democratic – in Canada were literally unthinkable. Voluntarily giving up, through reckless tax cuts, hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue needed for running the country (and provinces); the fire sale disposal of some of the countries most valuable, efficient and productive crown corporations; the signing of corporate rights agreements like NAFTA that severely constrain elected governments from legislating on behalf of their citizens; the ruthless slashing of social spending; and the deliberate driving down of salaries and wages by government policy – all now commonplace and once unthinkable.
In the late 1960s and early 70’s, at the height of the so-called golden age of capitalism, the ideas behind these policies were not discussed, they didn’t appear even in the “capitalist press.” They were, in effect, caged up some where, almost invisible.
