Though she hated top-down planning and approved of markets, as any city-lover should, pink-tinted Canada proved more congenial both to writing and to campaigning.
Making a statement to MPs on the national planning policy framework on 27 March 2012, Mr Clark said that "a decade of...top-down targets" had left "communities seeing planning as something done to them, rather than by them".
During the late 1980s into the 1990s, business innovation was often driven by top-down initiatives for the sake of business process re-engineering and enterprise resource planning software.