Originally Posted by VNORTH2
I don't dislike business people. That's Tony. smile I don't begrudge them what they have earned.
What do they profess socio-politically?
Do they have any plans for re-shaping society?
If so...what do those plans entail?

If you mean the Irving family, they own a lot but mostly privately held...at one time they owned most of the media in New Brunswick...both French and English...they tend to have a low profile politically here...years ago there were some battles...they have no doubt played a big part in shaping society, here, particularly in New Brunswick...at one time they were New Brunswick

overall they are a significant force in this part of our country and are the reason Halifax(read Irving) was awarded the 35-40 Billion ship building contract which will employ thousands for the next decade plus...and after decades of Nova Scotia trying to reach a population of 1 Million, it was achieved in 2021 directly because of the ship building...not gonna find many Maritimers being unhappy with the Irvings...Overall they're good corporate citizens...

if the pluses and minuses are totalled up, they have a pretty good track record notwithstanding their dominance here

Steve

I have nothing against some family I never even heard of until today.
I have nothing against whoever may own the King Ranch in SE Texas. Know very little about them other than the ranch is huge and it has an F150 named after.

But neither one of those is a Tech billionaire, with publicly known dubious personal morals, yet holding some secular sanctimonious vision for the future of mankind...now wholesale buying up farms in America.

And worst of all....revered by meddlesome foreign nationals....Canadians. Y'all got your own country to screw up. I'll leave you to it. smile

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