Michel-Kelly Gagnon, president of the TFA-winning Montreal Economic Institute, had an excellent piece in yesterday's Financial Post titled: "Our free-market past - Forget the notion of Canadian history as a long succession of government interventions. Private initiatives and individual liberties forged this country."
A key quote: "It may seem hard to believe today, but Quebec itself had one of the least interventionist governments on the continent until the Quiet Revolution. For example, when Roosevelt launched his New Deal there was consternation in Quebec. Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, the Liberal premier at that time, referred to it derisively as "a socialistic venture bordering on communism.... And, despite all the propaganda to the contrary, there is still a strong tradition in Quebec that favours individual liberty, personal responsibility and free enterprise."
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