[lbo-talk] FP warms to Horgan

[Marv Gandall]

For more than a century, social democratic governments everywhere have been nothing if not consistent in disappointing their followers and adapting to pressures from the powerful corporate sector . 

Latest case in point is British Columbia, where today’s Financial Post assures its readers that the recently-elected NDP government under Premier John Horgan “sounds a lot more business-friendly than a year ago” when Horgan and the party were campaigning to unseat the Liberals. 

Alluding to the same phenomenon in neighbouring Alberta, the Post notes that “the premier has moderated his views, much like Alberta’s NDP government, which initially knocked the oil industry, then became its cheerleader”.

http://business.financialpost.com/commodities/energy/lngs-unlikely-saviour-b-c-s-ndp-premier-turns-cheerleader-in-asia-trip