With great financial power comes great responsibility

Corporate social responsibility must be enforced by law, and it must be enforced through the ethical investment of our pension funds.

The NDP believes it is not only possible, but our responsibility, to ensure that our pension investments are not contributing toward human misery and suffering around the world, writes Alistair MacGregor.Pexels photograph by Markus Spiske

Opinion

BY NDP MP ALISTAIR MACGREGOR

March 17, 2021

On Friday, March 12, the second hour of debate concluded on my private member’s bill, C-231, An Act to amend the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board Act (investments). The Canada Pension Plan fund, valued at about half a trillion dollars, has the kind of financial firepower that can literally mo...

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