A subsidy that is hard to resist, and sometimes harder to justify

Angela Lekatsas, chief executive of Calgary-based Cervus Equipment Corp., a publicly traded retailer of John Deere tractors, Peterbilt trucks and other famous brands of heavy equipment, was keen to get her company’s share of the emergency cash that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was spraying over the Canadian economy this spring and summer. There was only one problem: Cervus was making too much money. ...