The Sport and Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth

By Linda McQuaig

Why are we selling off the impressive public enterprises we often battled as a nation to create?

In the early 1900s, thousands of Canadians battled wealthy interests, winning control of Niagara Falls and creating a public power company. Another popular movement succeeded in creating Canada’s public broadcasting system to counter American dominance of the airwaves. And a Canadian doctor established a publicly owned laboratory that saved countless lives by producing affordable medications, contributing to medical breakthroughs and helping to eradicate smallpox throughout the world.

But in recent decades, we have allowed our inspiring public enterprises to be privatized and our vital public programs downsized, leaving us increasingly dominated by the forces of private greed that rule the marketplace.

In The Sport and Prey of Capitalists, Linda McQuaig challenges the dogma of privatization, which has defined our political era. She argues that now more than ever, as we grapple with climate change and income inequality, we need to expand, not shrink, our public sphere.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dundurn
• Release date: Aug 31, 2019
• ISBN: 9781459743670

Linda McQuaig

Linda McQuaig is an award-winning investigative journalist, a Toronto Star columnist, and the author of eight non-fiction national bestsellers. A Talent for Deception is her first foray into fiction. She lives in Toronto.

Book preview