Stoller features a guest column on a new anti-monopoly trend in Canada. The author says that Canada has always been more prone to internal monopoly than US, with one family controlling most grocery stores and one family owning most of New Brunswick.
Last year our tech monsters finally went too far, and Trudeau has made some changes to slow down the automatic approval of everything Google does. The author sees this as a promising trend.
Before 1965 Canada was able to fight off the controlling influence of US monopolies. I’ve discussed this repeatedly in automobiles, and it was also true in radios and appliances. The 1965 “free trade” treaties broke Canada’s local content laws, and since then our corporations have simply ignored Canadian workers and suppliers. We use Canadian factories to build cars for sale here, and vice versa. Everything is the same everywhere. Graybill all the way.
I wonder if Canada’s tradition of internal monopolies made it easier to fight the external uniformity. When 1/10 of the continent works in unison, it has a lot more bullypower than a disorganized 1/10.
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