While Canadians line up at food banks, corporate profits are never enough: letters
By: Frank Sterle Jr.
Avoidable injustices are forcing many Canadians to choose between essential needs. Unrelenting food-price inflation is pushing more people to use food banks while giant-grocer corporate profits and payouts to corporate officers correspondingly inflate. Yet, the more such corporations make, the more they want — nay, need — to make in the next quarter. It’s never enough. Maximizing profits at the expense of those with so much less, or nothing, is a significant part of the nature of the big business beast. Big businesses are getting unaccountably bigger, defying the very spirit of government rules established to ensure healthy competition by limiting concentrated own
ership. And while corporate officers shrug their shoulders and defensively say their job is only to protect shareholders’ bottom-line interests, the shareholders shrug their shoulders while defensively stating that they just collect the dividends and that the big bosses are the ones to make the moral and ethical decisions. Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, meanwhile, criticizes the Justin Trudeau Liberals for the unaffordability of housing as well as food, both of which are largely due to real-estate speculation or greedflation, respectively. But Poilievre’s Tories, like Trudeau’s Liberals, are in bed with Big Business and their lobbyists. Mix in promised Conservative austerity measures with the unaffordability crisis, and you get a breeding ground for worsened economic conditions, thus human suffering. Spared from this turmoil, of course, will be the well-to-do, which tend to side with the money-first minded Tories. What will Poilievre do about the fact that the more giant-grocers and corporate officers make, the more they will go after in the next quarter?
It’s never enough.
