Linda McQuaig

For all his philanthropy, Gates is deeply committed to protecting the rights of patent holders.

When nations co-operate, corporations have a hard time playing us off against each other in pushing for ever-lower taxes.

If you don't have $20 million or sitting around you can just relax.

Privatization has left us scrambling for vaccines in today's pandemic—a dangerous situation that last week drove the desperate Trudeau government to announce a $415 million federal contribution to the expansion of vaccine production capacity at the old Connaught plant, now owned by French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Pasteur.

These public-private partnerships ultimately drive up the cost of the projects and leave municipalities with less control over their own infrastructure.

Privatized profit-making in homes caring for the elderly

Unlike Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, Canada's laws governing animal welfare have barely evolved over the last century.

Unfortunately, we’ve ventured a long way from the days when we had a publicly owned and medically innovative enterprise that dazzled on the world stage and kept Canadians at the front of the line for vaccines.