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I stress this point to every neoreactionary I meet. You want a CEO-like benign dictatorship? Move to Canada under a majority. In the '90s, Jean Chrétien unilaterally cut federal government spending by nearly 20 percent and laid off 50,000 civil servants! RAGE by any other name.
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I would say the standard corporate structure with a highly empowered CEO who is ultimately answerable to a Board of Directors more resembles parliamentary government than monarchy.
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Most of Canada used to be literally owned by a single joint stock corporation, Hudson's Bay. I don't know if that's why we're still so efficiently governed, but it's an interesting parallel to the NRx darling, Singapore, a former trading post of the British East India Company.
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Canada is also highly federalist, second only to Switzerland in terms of fiscal decentralization. Provincial premiers are even more CEO-like, given regional party dominance and our model of executive federalism.
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They want the general vibe of a theological monarchy. The cameralist CEO thing is phoned-in cosmetic update. It’s a yearning for a god-king, not for an instrumental dispensation with specific affordances.