“Where is the evidence that high corporate profits are needed for new investment to produce more jobs? Corporations are not in the business of creating jobs. They seek instead to create profit, and one way of doing that is by eliminating jobs.”

“During the 1990s, Canada’s poor have gotten poorer and its rich richer. The drop in wages for those aged fifteen to twenty-four was a frightening 20 percent. And we wonder why so many Canadian kids are begging on the street and offering to squeegee our windshields?”

“The Harris government acts as if democracy is a small strategic hurdle to be overcome on the way to implementing its right-wing agenda.”

“As the labour movement has searched for an effective response to the corporate aggressiveness of the 1980s and 1990s, I believe the real political leadership on the left has shifted away from the NDP.”

“Working Canadians have endured a virtual state of siege under Brian Mulroney and now Jean Chrétien during the past fifteen years. What the corporations have achieved is nothing less than the systematic dismantling of the socio-economic system Canadians built over four decades.”