Facts of life: necessities of life are just too expensive

Editor:

There’s serious yet avoidable injustice in so many Canadians having to choose between which necessities of life they can afford.

Not surprising, there’s been a proliferation of over-reliance on food banks. They’re unmet food needs that are exacerbated by unrelenting food-price inflation, all the while giantgrocer corporate profits and payouts to corporate officers correspondingly inflate.

Yet, the more that such corporations make, all the more they want — nay, need — to make next quarterly. It’s never enough. Maximizing profits at the expense of those with so much less, or nothing, will likely always be a significant part of the nature of the big business beast.

Meantime, such big businesses are getting unaccountably even bigger, defying the very spirit of government rules established to ensure healthy competition by limiting concentrated ownership.

And while corporate officers shrug their shoulders and defensively say their job is only to protect shareholders’ bottomline interests, the shareholders shrug their shoulders while defensively stating that they just collect the dividends and that the big bosses are the ones to make the moral and ethical decisions.

Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre meanwhile criticizes the Justin Trudeau Liberals for the unaffordability of housing as well as food, both of which are actually largely due to real-estate speculation or greed-flation, respectively.

But Poilievre’s Tories are at least as corpocratically inclined as Trudeau’s Liberals — i.e. being in bed with Big Business and their lobbyists. Mix in promised Conservative austerity measures with the above unaffordability crisis, and you get a breeding ground for worsened economic conditions thus human suffering. Spared from this turmoil, of course, will be the well-toto, which tend to side with the money-first-minded Tories.

What will Poilievre do about the fact that the more that giantgrocer corporations and corporate officers make, all the more they irresistibly want to and likely will make next quarter? It’s never enough. Frank Sterle Jr. White Rock, B.C.