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Our Corporate-driven Nation
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Our Corporate-driven Nation |
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Our Corporate-driven Nation
We live in a corporate-driven nation. The view of our government is reflected in the French term “laissez faire” which means, “let people do as they choose.” This suggests minimal government interference in the business enterprise system. This notion is referred to as the “free enterprise system”, or capitalism, which implements the right to private ownership of property, competition within the business industry, and restricted government involvement in the corporate sector. Canada as we know strongly practices capitalism. This implies that our government is run by the corporate sector, mainly multinational corporations. The corporate sector yet propagates the need for less government and fewer taxes. The corporate sector plays a prevailing role within the government as our top politicians depend on them. The industry performance of the corporate sector is directly proportional to our country’s economic performance in the world economy, which is an issue on the crest of every politician’s agenda. Also, the corporate sector has the citizens on their side when it comes to their struggle against the government for “fewer taxes”.
All of our politicians, be it the Liberals or the Progressive Conservatives, rely on the massive funding of the corporate sector. The corporate sector plays an important role in elections. Factors such as advertisements, flyers and television commercials are very important to winning an election. These factors however are very expensive. Private companies contribute most of these expenses in terms of donations as they support the party of their choice. This “choice” is directly proportional to the policies of the government to which the politician belongs. For instance the annual fiscal policy is an essential element of a corporation’s performance. The corporation also pays close attention to the government’s monetary policy, which consists of elements such as the interest rate and taxation. Since these elements are crucial to the corporation, the corporation ends up massively funding the government they find profitable. So as much as the politicians are funded during the election process, in turn, the corporations are also favoured once the government is in power.
Economic well-being is every government’s top priority. The performance of the corporate sector is directly proportional to ou...Read entire document
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