Today’s SACPA to discuss money, power, poverty

SACPA recently heard “we cannot arrest our way out of the addiction problems in southern Alberta.”

Today, during the regular weekly session of SACPA, set for noon at the Royal Canadian Legion, speaker Larry Elford will elaborate and present “Money, Power and Poverty: What Harms are done by those at the Top of Society versus those at the Bottom?”

Elford worked inside the investment industry from 1984 to 2004, and has since testified as an expert to four legislative/parliamentary committees on Finance, Justice and Human Rights. In 2009, he produced a documentary film called “Breach of Trust” about the unique violence of systemic white-collar crime.

In 2018, he published a nonfiction book “About Your Financial Murder,” which described hidden financial industry practices that serve to unjustly enrich corporations, while harming the public.

The speaker will follow that analogy and connect some dots between social and mental stress, illness, addiction and corporate power or capitalism’s contribution to the problems. The talk will focus upon hidden systemic financial crime that regulators (and polite society) are unwilling or unable to discuss, and the trickle-down effect upon society.