{"id":28798,"date":"2014-11-22T10:02:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28798"},"modified":"2014-11-22T10:02:14","modified_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:02:14","slug":"the-rise-of-the-quebec-libertarian-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/11\/22\/the-rise-of-the-quebec-libertarian-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"The rise of the Quebec libertarian movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I was active in the Libertarian Party of Canada, Quebec was an almost unknown area &#8230; there were so few libertarians or pro-free market people that we rarely tried to run a candidate in elections there. That apparently is now changing:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oU1p1UlWWLM\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Published on 18 Nov 2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For a couple of years now, Canada has had a freer economy than the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Martin Masse, one of the leading figures in the Canadian libertarian movement. Back in the late 90s, when libertarianism was a thoroughly marginal ideology in the country, Masse started <em>Le Quebecois Libre<\/em>, an online gathering place for allies to the cause.<\/p>\n<p>Things have since changed. Free market ideas now inform Canadian public policy to a degree that&#8217;s probably surprising to the average American. <em>Reason TV<\/em> recently sat down with Masse to find out about this transformation and to discuss the future of liberty in our neighbor to the North.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back when I was active in the Libertarian Party of Canada, Quebec was an almost unknown area &#8230; there were so few libertarians or pro-free market people that we rarely tried to run a candidate in elections there. That apparently is now changing: Published on 18 Nov 2014 &#8220;For a couple of years now, Canada [&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":[6,10],"tags":[550,113,162],"class_list":["post-28798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-liberty","tag-libertarianism","tag-quebec","tag-socializedmedicine"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-7uu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28798","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=28798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28799,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28798\/revisions\/28799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}