Corporate Canada betrayed capitalism. Now it has been betrayed
By Bruce Pardy | Published by the National Post
The original Battlestar Galactica, a campy space opera, debuted on network television in 1978. Canadian actor John Colicos played the traitor Baltar, who helps robot Cylons ambush human civilization. After humans have been almost wiped out, Baltar is hauled before the Cylons’ Imperious Leader. “What of our bargain?!” Baltar demands. “My colony was to be spared!” The Leader says he has altered the bargain. “How can you change one side of a bargain?!” Baltar spits, not getting it. “When there is no other side,” the robot tells him, “You have missed the entire point of the war. There can be no survivors.“ “Surely,” Baltar stammers, finally understanding, “you don’t mean me.”
Corporate Canada should know the feeling. After years of colluding with climate hysteria and betraying capitalism, Canadian companies have been dumped at the curb.
Summary
With the passage of Bill C-59, which outlaws "greenwashing" claims, Corporate Canada has lost its climate bargain with the Trudeau government. Buried in the stack are two sections that prohibit “greenwashing.” Provisions amend the Competition Act and make climate and other environmental claims subject to the same regulatory regime as false advertising. Corporate Canada has lost its climate bargain.
How did Corporate Canada become so caught?
Business leaders caught themselves when they betrayed the economic principles of their own society and aligned with progressive statism, which is fundamentally opposed to free enterprise and prosperity.
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Bruce Pardy is executive director of Rights Probe, a senior fellow with the Fraser Institute, and professor of law at Queen’s University.
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