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Blair Redlin’s Blog Posts

Blair Redlin is a researcher with the Canadian Union of Public Employees and a former Deputy Minister with the BC government.

B.C. Government: Truest of the Trade True Believers

April 20th, 2010 · Blair Redlin · 2 Comments · Economy

Alone amongst provinces, only B.C. failed to exempt even a single municipality or provincial agency from the recent Canada/U.S. Procurement Agreement.

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Corporations are people too

January 31st, 2010 · Blair Redlin · 2 Comments · Electoral reform, Municipalities, Taxes

Advocates of democratic electoral reform are really out of step. Ideas like proportional representation and advertising spending limits are so retro, so 2004. The fashionable electoral reform idea this year is to give corporations a real say. It’s time for individual citizens to share their electoral democracy with corporations to give meaning to those old [...]

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