Author says Canada’s ability to scale up companies involves fixing problems with corporate governance in Western economies

The following is an excerpt from Hard Lessons in Corporate Governance, by Bryce C. Tingle, shortlisted for this year's Donner Prize, one of the best public policy books of the year.

Author Bryce C. Tingle on why he wrote this book: 'Business corporations are among the most important and powerful institutions in our society, but most Canadians don’t actually know how they are governed and who gets a say in what they do.'Book cover and author photograph courtesy of Cambridge University Press

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BY BRYCE C. TINGLE

May 19, 2025

The year before I went to law school, I attended a late-night movie in a crowded and very noisy campus theatre. I can’t remember the film we were all there to see, but I do remember that for the warmup, the theatre was playing classic Chuck Jones Looney Tunes cart...

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