What Sweden Got Right (and Ottawa Didn’t): A Case for Alberta’s Independence

Sweden isn’t socialist—and it hasn’t been for decades.
In this Frankly Speaking, Nadine breaks down the facts: Sweden is a competitive market economy with a large welfare layer, funded by broad-based VAT and income taxes—not by “taxing the rich.” It runs on competition, choice, and personal responsibility: school vouchers (1992), no minimum wage (wages are negotiated), flexible labor markets, lower corporate taxes than Canada, and major pro-market reforms in the 1990s after a socialist experiment failed