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Corporate Welfare Bums was the slogan that former NDP leader David Lewis memorably employed on a federal election campaign three decades ago.
Today his grandson, broadcaster and self-described "journalist-activist" Avi Lewis, is fighting the same anti-corporate fight, but in the media, not the political arena.

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So what do I make of Buzz Hargrove's endorsement of this:

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Ford Canada's $1-billion expansion of its plant in Oakville was promised $100 million each from the federal and provincial governments yesterday, with a few conditions attached.

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The investment will help protect the 3,900 jobs at the Oakville plant, said Ford Canada spokesperson Lauren More.

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London Free Press

Perhaps we, too, will understand the benefits of forking over millions in taxpayer handouts to McDonald's retaurants so they can market chicken McNuggets to European's.

And we could transform our universities into research and development labs oriented toward corporate agendas as the American's have done, instead of the at-arms-lenghth public institutions for nurturing thinking, reasoning individuals that they were meant to be. Ralph Nader warned Canadians about extended 20 and 20 year patent protections for over-bloated pharmaceutical companies in the 1980's. Now he's saying that corporations want to turn our public institutions into self-serving entities to corporate statism.

And after growing Soviet in proportion on taxpayer handouts, we, too, can watch as our foreign owned subsidiaries offshore jobs and profits to the other side of the globe as they set up yet another corporate welfare state there or wherever skilled labour can serve their parasitic needs.

[ 01 November 2004: Message edited by: Fidel ]