I would invest in a corporation if the CEO was Kathleen Wynne.

Why? She is a smart, proven leader who will go to the wall for her team. Against fierce odds, including personal criticism, she will doggedly, even cheerfully, push her team’s agenda. She is so self and team oriented, she will do nearly anything to win.

While Wynne isn’t charged, she will testify at a trial underway in Sudbury to determine whether members of her team broke the law in their aggressive pursuit of victory under her leadership.

Leaving that aside, Wynne’s smart, agenda-driven zeal for victory is often successful in business and welcomed by shareholders.

The public is generally protected in the private sector by competition. Competition forces a CEO to focus on the customer to achieve success.

That is how Home Hardware — the Canadian “little guy” in the widget world — competes successfully with Lowe’s, Home Depot and Canadian Tire.

The problem we encounter with Wynne is that while she is an impressive leader of the Liberal party, her party is all she seems to care about, such that she is damaging the province as premier.

All the qualities that work for Wynne and her team would only be beneficial to society in a competitive environment.

She isn’t in one.

In our political system, with Wynne in charge of a majority government until June, 2018, the Liberals hold all the power. Given that, the Progressive Conservatives and NDP are ineffective and largely irrelevant.

The Liberals have consolidated their power by growing and serving the public sector at the expense of the general public.

A study by political scientists Andrea Rounce and Karine Levasseur at the University of Manitoba in 2015 showed public sector workers tend to vote on the left, compared to private sector employees.

As the Fraser Institute has reported, “From 2003 (when the Ontario Liberals first won power) to 2013, public sector employment growth in Ontario (27.6%) dramatically outpaced private sector employment growth (5.6%) by a whopping 22 percentage points.”

That brought us higher spending, rising government debt, and sluggish economic growth.

The Liberals added more public employees with programs like full day kindergarten, with an annual budget of $1.5 billion. The same will happen with Ontario’s marijuana sales system that will be public, not private.

Monopolies are typically illegal in the private sector because they serve the monopoly, not the public.

Wynne prefers public sector monopolies that serve the government.

Perhaps that’s why she’s going after the private sector with new rules and regulations and an unprecedented hike in the minimum wage.

The Wynne government uses our tax dollars to pay public sector employees higher salaries, with better benefits, than people make in the private sector for doing comparable jobs. The Liberals paid teacher union expenses during negotiations with them, while the unions spent millions helping the Liberals get re-elected.

It’s a politically rigged game.

If you shop Home Hardware, Lowe’s has to work harder to get you as a customer.

In Wynne’s case, she runs the only provincial government available in Ontario.

Wynne has convinced many in the public sector that no other party will serve them.

That’s the customer base she most needs in a multi-party election, as last time it took only 38.7% of the vote to hand her a majority government.

That’s why it’s important that in the next election we do our best to give Wynne the opportunity to sell her impressive skills to the private market.

- Agar is the 9 a.m. to noon host on Newstalk 1010.