After Politics
Since retirment, Rae works as a consultant for the development industry clearing zoning and other regulatory and statuatory hurdles on behalf of builders; ONEX chairman Gerry Schwarz hired Rae (October 2012) to lobby city councillors against a downtown casino, a development that the city's executive committee has been considering as a tool of economic development.
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“The real grounds of difference upon important political questions no longer correspond with party lines.... Politics is no longer the topic of this country. Its important questions are settled... Great minds hereafter are to be employed on other matters.... Government no longer has its ancient importance.... The people’s progress, progress of every sort, no longer depends on government. But enough of politics. Henceforth I am out more than ever.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)
“The so-called consumer society and the politics of corporate capitalism have created a second nature of man which ties him libidinally and aggressively to the commodity form. The need for possessing, consuming, handling and constantly renewing the gadgets, devices, instruments, engines, offered to and imposed upon the people, for using these wares even at the danger of one’s own destruction, has become a “biological” need.”
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