Harper wants to crack down on Gas-Price Fixing in Canada!

How can Mr. Harper even attempt such an endeavour when:

The proliferation and scope of the corporation have now reached mammoth proportions, there are over 40, 000 corporations in the world, and two hundred giant corporations now control over a quarter of the world’s economic activity. Philip Morris, an American corporation which operates in 171 countries has annual revenues larger than that of New Zealand’s economy. Of the 100 largest economies, in the world, 51 are corporations, only 49 are countries. Corporations are calling the shots and in fact actively formulating policy.

Today, the public corporation itself operates as a form of representative government. In the olden days ‘the church’ called the shots today ‘BIG BUSINESS’ have taken over the power that was once held by ‘DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENTS’.

We have a government in power who stated that they plan, “to go after gas companies with price fixing legislation that would make it easier to prove collusion”

(http://news.sympatico.msn.ctv.ca/Home/ContentPosting?newsitemid=CTVNews%2f20080924%2felection2008_economy_worries_080925&feedname=CTV-TOPSTORIES_V3&show=False&number=0&showbyline=True&subtitle=&detect=&abc=abc&date=TrueHarper wants to crack down on gas-price fixing).

Is it not clear that we as consumers have been and are being gouged by these oil companies?

Continuing in this same article, “Tories say they will widen the price-fixing provisions in the Competition Act and almost triple the maximum penalties to 14 years in prison and a $25-million fine”. Certainly we can count on never witnessing One Company being fined in our lifetime. The revenue collected by our ‘DEMOCRATIC CANADIAN GOVERNMENT’ is filling the coffers, why would they enforce ‘provisions in the Competition Act’; to reduce the revenue they are collecting from these oil sands, oil and gas, and pipeline companies?

So what part does Corporate Governance play in this scenario?

We are all stakeholders in our communities, some of us are shareholders in these organizations. Shareholders are the owners of the corporation who are imbued with the authority to elect directors to represent their interests and govern the corporation. We need to address this situation that has gone corrupt, distorted, and awry. We can exercise our votes either through our voting power or through reducing our demand.
Please read my article (http://www.advaitaashrama.org/pb_archive/2006/PB_2006_September.pdf)

for some solutions to this crisis in our global society.