“Liberalizing #markets was a philosophical and practical abdication of responsibility for the fundamental moral, ethical and political questions about how we should organize the #economy.” - #DeniseHearn & #VassBednar, The Big Fix: How #Companies Capture #Markets & Harm Canadians

“ #Canada was the 1st country in the world to institute a federal, industrial-era #competitionlaw in 1889, one year before the #UnitedStates enacted its national #antimonopoly #law, the Sherman Act, in 1890.” - #DeniseHearn & #VassBednar, The Big Fix: How #Companies Capture #Markets & Harm Canadians

“Markets are made, not born. They are #public creations and have guardrails which should be democratically determined. Who makes them, and the rules that govern them are up to us.” - #DeniseHearn & #VassBednar, The Big Fix: How Companies Capture #Markets and Harm #Canadians #cdnecon #books #cdnpoli