{"id":19286,"date":"2013-03-06T00:02:54","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T05:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19286"},"modified":"2013-03-05T11:42:30","modified_gmt":"2013-03-05T16:42:30","slug":"qotd-canada-syndrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/03\/06\/qotd-canada-syndrome\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Canada Syndrome"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It\u2019s one of the marvels of the Canadian electorate. Show Canadians a special interest group that uses its government-granted privileges to fleece consumers, and they\u2019ll embrace it as a \u201cnational champion,\u201d a \u201cuniquely Canadian way of life\u201d or some equally vapid catch-phrase.<\/p>\n<p>This is from the Wikipedia entry for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stockholm_syndrome\" target=\"_blank\">Stockholm Syndrome<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<p><em>Stockholm syndrome, or capture\u2013bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending them.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What we suffer from is the economic policy equivalent. Call it \u201cCanada Syndrome\u201d: a tendency for consumers to identify with the producer interests that are holding them hostage.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen F. Gordon, <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.macleans.ca\/2013\/03\/05\/our-stockholm-syndrome-about-supply-management\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Our Stockholm Syndrome about supply management&#8221;, <em>Maclean&#8217;s<\/em><\/a>, 2013-03-05<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s one of the marvels of the Canadian electorate. Show Canadians a special interest group that uses its government-granted privileges to fleece consumers, and they\u2019ll embrace it as a \u201cnational champion,\u201d a \u201cuniquely Canadian way of life\u201d or some equally vapid catch-phrase. This is from the Wikipedia entry for Stockholm Syndrome: Stockholm syndrome, or capture\u2013bonding, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,25,41],"tags":[727,469,266,793,890],"class_list":["post-19286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-economics","category-quotations","tag-cronycapitalism","tag-monopolies","tag-protectionism","tag-subsidies","tag-supplymanagement"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-514","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19286"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19289,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19286\/revisions\/19289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}