A few weeks ago, I asked Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre why he thought the Trudeau government had opened up immigration so dramatically in the aftermath of the pandemic. His best hypothesis was that the government was responding to businesses who wanted to drive up labour competition and drive down wages. It’s a classic public choice story. Poilievre’s answer brought me back to one of Canada’s most important political economy books in recent decades, Brian Lee Crowley’s 2009 book, Fearful Symmetry: The Fall and Rise of Canada’s Founding Values ... CLICK HERE for the full story
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