Spotlight on Industry Minister Maxime Bernier

InterGovWorld's Spotlight series profiles Executives, decision-makers and their initiatives across all levels of Canadian government.


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Part 1 of InterGovWorld's Spotlight on Minister Maxime Bernier of Industry Canada. Bernier discusses the biggest challenge of his job, the recent cabinet shake-up, and the controversial government proposal to change a decision by the CRTC regarding deregulation.

Readers write back:

Roger Langille of Vancouver on April 1 wrote:

Putting Canada and Canadians first, above everyone and everything else: that was what this government ran an election on. They called it standing up for Canada and Canadians. When did they plan on putting these words into action?

For 30 years now our goverments in Ottawa have not stood by Canadian industry, while all along funding projects around the world with federal funds that then wiped out the same industries here in Canada and the West.
When is Canada going to support Canada and Canadians in the same way as they do Japan, India, Pakistan, China, South Korea, Thialand and many others funded wth Canadian and American tax dollars? While at the same time the homeless numbers multiplied and the same industries where wiped out in Canada and America by these same countries.

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