BELL: Familiar sound
Posted: Mon May 27, 2013 11:33 amBELL: Familiar sound
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By Joan Bell, The StarPhoenix May 18, 2013
Welcome to corporate Canada and Saskatchewan, where grain trade has gone from farmer owned wheat pools and the Canadian Wheat Board to shareholder controlled corporations, such as Swiss Glencore. Cargill, Richardson and Midland.
Shareholder and state-owned corporations from France, Germany, Australia, Indian and China, along with Potash and Cameco are raping Mother Earth of resources.
Canada's mining corporations operating in El Salvador, Columbia, India and Africa are described as very disrespectful of workers' and human rights. The Harper government has gutted environmental regulations so corporations are unrestricted in their pursuit of wealth.
The Brad Wall government in Saskatchewan has hired a wealthy American corporation to overhaul our health-care social services and education systems. The "Lean" scheme is costly to taxpayers and worker's rights. It also has taken Crown profits, privatized profit-making assets and privatized Crown lands.
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Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World" predicted a people consumed with boundless credit and cheap goods, and George Orwell described (in) his book, "1984", a world of fear, permanent war and nations dependent on military powers.
Sound Familiar?
Joan Bell, Saskatoon.
< http://www.thestarphoenix.com/business/ ... story.html >
By Joan Bell, The StarPhoenix May 18, 2013
Welcome to corporate Canada and Saskatchewan, where grain trade has gone from farmer owned wheat pools and the Canadian Wheat Board to shareholder controlled corporations, such as Swiss Glencore. Cargill, Richardson and Midland.
Shareholder and state-owned corporations from France, Germany, Australia, Indian and China, along with Potash and Cameco are raping Mother Earth of resources.
Canada's mining corporations operating in El Salvador, Columbia, India and Africa are described as very disrespectful of workers' and human rights. The Harper government has gutted environmental regulations so corporations are unrestricted in their pursuit of wealth.
The Brad Wall government in Saskatchewan has hired a wealthy American corporation to overhaul our health-care social services and education systems. The "Lean" scheme is costly to taxpayers and worker's rights. It also has taken Crown profits, privatized profit-making assets and privatized Crown lands.
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Aldous Huxley's book "Brave New World" predicted a people consumed with boundless credit and cheap goods, and George Orwell described (in) his book, "1984", a world of fear, permanent war and nations dependent on military powers.
Sound Familiar?
Joan Bell, Saskatoon.