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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Carol Goar: Constructive capitalism: business that makes people’s live better (in The Toronto Star)

"“None of this is easy,” [Umair] Haque acknowledges. “It won’t magically create a paradise overnight or possibly ever. Only one thing is certain: the future belongs to those countries that make an institutional leap forward.”

Canada isn’t likely to be one of them. With a prime minister bent on selling off its natural resources as rapidly as possible, the country is heading backward to the 19th century, not rising to the challenges of a new millennium."

Full article: Constructive capitalism: business that makes people’s live better.

Umair Haque is an alumnus of McGill University who now runs a global research institute in London.