Going local means an unapologetic embrace of the goods of modern life, its rights and efficiencies, with a cautious eye to the train of human...
A conversation that pits local business against multi-national corporations gets at only half the truth. The problem is not the scale of the economic...
But while global trade policy has tended to sing from a free trade song sheet, the reality even in countries singing the free trade anthem the loudest is...
A good society has not only its institutions, but its loves in order.
Going local is the sort of Millennial mantra that gets play on both sides of the partisan playground. For conservatives, going local is about devolution, federalism, small government, and individual responsibility. For liberals, going local is a political act of opposition to faceless corporations and bureaucracies, a cultivation of authenticity and rootedness in a society of simulacra and simulation.
Canada's challenge, and this issue of Cardus Policy in Public, is about exploring an embedded localism tethered to a robust federalism, with a good Samaritan kind of global neighbourliness.
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