Ten per cent of our neighbours survive on charity. 10 per cent of Canadians eat through charity. 10 per cent. Surely if you were prime minister or minister of trade or of industry, you would wake up each day thinking that, for reasons that escape you, the central policy chosen to drive the economy is not working. It is not working because it is not meeting the needs of a democracy in which legitimacy lies with the citizenry.

As you would expect when individualism is based only on opportunity, no one asks what happens to those who have neither the financial nor the political clout t…

What I am describing is not only a society dominated by corporatist structures, but by the received wisdom of a corporatist atmosphere: one in which the elites…

Ever since the democratic systems permitted their various courts to give corporations the status of persons, the individual as citizen has been on the defensiv…

This [European] Constitution does not reflect the thoughts, hopes and aspirations of ordinary people. It does nothing for jobs or economic growth and widens fu…

From France to the Phillipines, from Jamaica to Japan, from Malaysia to Mexico, from Sri Lanka to Singapore, privatisation is on the move...The policies we hav…

Canada was built from its very beginnings on the belief that public leadership in the economy and on social issues would be as effective and cheap as anything …