Richard Janda and Iseoluwa Akintunde
Richard Janda is a law professor at McGill University. Iseoluwa Akintunde is an international lawyer and doctoral candidate at McGill University.
It’s time for Canada to catch up to countries that have legal frameworks encouraging corporations to state their purpose. That’s not to say companies shouldn’t be able to make a profit. But as the British Academy stated in 2019, ‘The purpose of business is to solve the problems of people and planet profitably, and not profit from causing problems.’