To address the affordability crisis, Parliamentarians should support Bill C-56 and back unions to counterbalance corporate power

Our recent lingering bout of high inflation is the most visible consequence of corporate power.

President and CEO of Empire Company Limited Michael Medline, left, and Galen Weston, who stepped down as president of Loblaw earlier this year, but remains chair of its board, CEO of its parent company, and controlling shareholder. The pair are pictured testifying at a parliamentary committee in March 2023.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DT COCHRANE

December 5, 2023

Bill C-56, better known as the Affordable Housing and Groceries Act, gets its third reading this week. It includes an important change for challenging the corporate power that has worsened the affordability crisis: repeal of the “efficiency exception” from the C...

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