Corporate Control

Canada in Decline Book Two

Nora Loreto

• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Year: 2025
• Print ISBN: 9781459753105
• eBook ISBN: 9781459753150
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic Policy
• Index: Economics

How deep does corporate dominance go in Canada? The second book in Nora Loreto's landmark series dives into the corporate web spun around Canada's economy, society, and politics.

The joke goes that Canada is three mining companies in a trench coat. Or three oil companies in a trench coat. Or three telecom companies in a trench coat. It's funny because it's almost true: a handful of corporations exert a disproportionate amount of power over Canadian democracy.

Corporate profits are at a record high, and the divide between the rich and the poor has never been wider. Canadians are struggling with affordability, the housing crisis, and wages that don't cover basic needs. The combination of these forces is a pressure cooker that politicians have promised to tackle, except they can't: they are too restricted by corporate power to confront the roots of the problems Canadians face.

The first book in the Canada in Decline series examines the rise and fall of Canada's social safety net. In this next volume, Loreto goes further, identifying why Canadian politicians seem impotent in the face of corporate Canada.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Author’s Notes
• Introduction
• 1 Business as Colonization
• 2 The Free Trade Revolution
• 3 Retrenchment and Fight Back
• 4 The Rise and Fall of Crowns
• 5 The Financialization of Health, Education, and Housing
• 6 Profits Bonanza
• 7 Corporate Influence over Political Power
• Conclusion
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Author