Brent Jessop - Knowledge Driven Revolution.com
December 06, 2006
December 06, 2006
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power." - Benito Mussolini
An often overlooked attribute of the Nazi Party was their close relationship to German industry. In fact they received a lot of their funding from big industrialists like August Borsig (Berlin locomotive manufacturer), Emil Kirdorf (Coal Syndicate) and Fritz Thyssen (United Steel Works and president of German Industrial Council). They were rewarded for their support when the Nazis obtained political power. The Nazis shifted a lot of the once fully public assets into joint public-private control. [1] Does this sound familiar?
According to the Canadian Press, Canadian Finance Minister Jim Flaherty recently “made a pledge to give maximum impact to government spending through public-private partnerships.” He called this the “Advantage Canada plan”. Who’s advantage?
There is no shortage of these fascist… sorry… public-private partnerships happening in Canada. One example is a new bridge at the border crossing between Windsor and Detroit. They forgot to mention that you are going to pay to build it and to drive on it. Just like the new toll roads going in around Montreal.
Sadly, in a poll conducted by Environics Research 64% of Canadians support the idea of public-private partnerships. This was a huge part of the justification behind the new bridge.
“The clear signal that the federal government is entertaining private involvement in a second bridge between Detroit and Windsor, Ont., comes amid new polling data that suggests nearly two-thirds of Canadians support the idea of public-private partnerships.”
It may sound distressing that 64% of Canadians sympathize with fascism. Well, maybe not. The poll conducted by Environics Research was commissioned by… drum roll… The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP). They are described in a footnote of the same study as “a national non-partisan, non-profit organization founded on the belief that the capacity of government to meet its current and future infrastructure and service obligations can be enhanced through public-private partnerships.”
Some bias in the poll? You be the judge. The Canadian Press sure won’t.Read the full article here