Corporate Globalization Has Canada’s Democracy In A Death Grip

By Mark Taliano

Canada is in denial of her true self.  We have been co-opted by a globalized corporatocracy.

This chosen self-negation is exacting a heavy toll.  We have arguably lost our democracy, and much of our sovereignty, in addition to cultural pluralism, biodiversity, and economic self-determination.
The facilitator of this “corporate coup” is a toxic mental landscape.

Transnational corporations and their political lobbyists wilfully co-opt the language of human rights as a subterfuge for retrograde supranational agreements that deny democracy, as well as economic and cultural self-determination.   We are daily bombarded with false terms such as “free trade” and “private sector” to the point where we internalize (subliminally?) incorrect meanings.Ubiquitous “free trade” rhetoric infers freedom and prosperity even as it delivers the opposite.  Protectionist agreements such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) enable the outsourcing of labour to authoritarian regimes where human and labour rights are much lower. The movement of capital is protected and deregulated as jobs, public health, environmental, cultural, and human rights disappear.

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