They’re being lured by some old-time Canadian socialists
“Good morning,” said the cheery email from the PR firm hired to promote a new documentary set for its Canadian premier later this month. It went downhill from chirpy good morning to anti-corporate nightmare as the PR pitch unspooled. “With the SNC-Lavalin scandal currently captivating us all, I wanted to reach out as we’re working on publicity for Emmy-winning director Fred Peabody’s new documentary, The Corporate Coup d’État screening at Hot Docs Festival in Toronto.
There is no actual mention of SNC-Lavalin in The Corporate Coup d’État, but there’s plenty of old-fashioned Canadian radicalism to warm the steamy imaginations of Canada’s leftists. The film’s director is from Vancouver, and two of the star intellectual performers beating the drums of neo-Marxist economics are Maude Barlow and John Ralston Saul. Most Canadians have forgotten these two legends of national activism, but they anchor the U.S.-focused Coup d-Etat.
Exactly how SNC-Lavalin fits the U.S. narrative, or the corporate-coup theme, is far from clear —although there is certainly a movement in Canada to turn the Quebec firm’s troubles into a metaphor for the corporate infiltration of politics. Moving along now to the next Canadian anti-corporate rage to infiltrate my email in recent days, we have a short video titled “A Message From the Future With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.” As readers will know, Ocasio-Cortez , promoter of the “Green New Deal,” is the U.S. Democrats’ standard-bearer for America’s radical socialist left.
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