Intermingling of business and corporate affairs makes governing country as 鈥淐EO鈥� impossible

After the federal government鈥檚 speech from the throne in May 2025, Bloc Qu茅becois leader Yves-Francois Blanchet accused Prime Minister Mark Carney of seeking to centralize power and act as Canada鈥檚 CEO. But聽 running a country like a CEO may not be possible. After all, a country is simply not the same as a company. Writing about similar rhetoric from right-wing US politicians in the early years of the first Trump administration, Professor Henry Mintzberg wrote in the Harvard Business Review that a growing intermingling of government and corporate affairs is an impediment. 鈥淭he relationship between business and government, a separation of powers no less vital than that within government itself, has become so confounded that it threatens American democracy.鈥�