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Official opposition to overall economic planning and planning controls has been characterized in a recent editorial as "Papa knows best." But it is precisely because Papa does not know best that I believe that Government should not presume to tell any businessman or industrialist what he should or should not do, far less what he may or not do; and no matter how it may be dressed up that is what planning is.

Official Report of Proceedings of the Hong Kong Legislative Council (p. 133), March 30, 1962.
Official opposition to overall economic planning and planning controls has been characterized in a recent editorial as Papa knows best. But it is precisely because Papa does not know best that I believe that Government