The crushing of protest and the promotion of corporate power – by instruments such as the proposed Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership – are just two forms of the extreme government intervention required to create a system which claims to be free from government intervention. —George Monbiot. The damaging economic,…
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Imagine a far-off dystopia when foreign corporations are given the same status as citizens in public hearings. When the overriding priority for government in issuing licenses for fracking, pipeline and other projects is to make the process simple for corporations. When, regardless of how much a project is opposed by…
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Imaginez dans un avenir lointain une Distopie – une Utopie à l’envers – où les entreprises étrangères bénéficieraient du même statut que les citoyens dans les audiences publiques; où la priorité pour un gouvernement qui émet des permis pour la fracturation hydraulique, un pipeline et autres projets du genre serait…
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According to the European Commission, the biggest company in the world, Apple, owes Ireland an astounding 13 billion euros in taxes. That’s almost $20 billion Canadian, manna from heaven for the struggling country. The EC says that Ireland broke EU’s state aid laws, and must recoup this money. But the…
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This is an epilogue to Ed Finn’s three-part series examining the ideology of neoliberalism and the enormous harm its implementation imposes on people and the planet. Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. “Men are seldom blessed with good fortune and good sense at the same time.” —Titus Livius Livy…
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I appeared yesterday at the parliamentary committee on international trade alongside Hassan Yussuff and Angella MacEwan (Canadian Labour Congress), Gus Van Harten (who just released a report for the CCPA on investor-state dispute settlement), and Victoria Owen and Susan Haigh of the Canadian Association of Research Libraries. For once, at…
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This is Part 3 of a three-part series that examines the ideology of neoliberalism and the enormous harm its implementation imposes on people and the planet. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here.
The Canadian public overwhelming believes that government’s first priority is to protect their health, safety and the environment. They do not trust corporations to regulate themselves, believing that they will privilege profits over safety. (See the CCPA report “Canada’s Regulatory Obstacle Course” for polling data.) Only after a major disaster…
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This is Part 2 of a three-part series that examines the ideology of neoliberalism and the enormous harm its implementation imposes on people and the planet. Read Part 1 here.
This is Part 1 of a three-part series that examines the ideology of neoliberalism and the enormous harm its implementation imposes on people and the planet.