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Opinion: The Canada Strong Fund is a debt-fuelled corporate slush fund 

Real sovereign wealth funds are a great idea when done right. But that’s not what Prime Minister Mark Carney is creating

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The Holy Roman Empire wasn’t an empire, or Roman, and its behaviour definitely wasn’t holy. But the title sounds impressive.

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Prime Minister Mark Carney seems to be using that marketing technique from the Middle Ages with the federal government’s latest way to borrow money and hand out corporate welfare.

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Carney announced the creation of the Canada Strong Fund that he’s billing as “Canada’s first national sovereign wealth fund.”

Here’s the problem. Carney isn’t saving wealth. He’s borrowing more money.

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