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Originally Posted by trueviking
Except government is not a business. There is much more to successful governance than turning profit, which is the sole driver of business. This point seems to have been forgotten these days. Government is about creating a quality of life for all of its citizens.
My biggest criticism of this government is that they are running the Province as if it was a business having to report to shareholders at the quarter. They have a single focus and have forgotten that while business is about money, government is about people. A fundamental difference.
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I don't mean this at all disparaginly, but the business experience they have is from small businesses and family businesses. Pallister's cabinet has people who owned gift shops, personal investment dealers, insurance brokerages, family farms, etc. These are great businesses, they're certainly not easy to run, I'm not saying that. They all know the value of a dollar, for sure.
But they don't have experience navigating large, complex organizations with lots of stakeholders. I think, for instance, I'd look at someone like Paul Mahon of GWL, and say, 'okay, that guy could handle government'. But some folks whose business experience is just selling mutual funds or flowers or whatever out of a small-town storefront? I don't know.
Don't get me wrong -- the NDP were worse in their ability to manage. But I just don't look at the provincial Tories and see their small/family business acumen as particularly helpful.