4.2 Eliminating Corporate Personhood
If s.30 of the BC Business Corporations Act were to be eliminated and replaced by an inclusive list of rights, powers and privileges without invoking any form of personhood, it in some ways may provide some clarity. By doing so, we would more easily be able to identify and define permitted corporate action strictly in […]
Discussion Activity 4.1
Quick summary of corporations’ use of s.7 of the Charter: Irwin Toy- a corp CANNOT avail itself of the protection offered by s.7 of Charter; nonsensical to speak of a corp being put in jail à7 protection on a singularly human level “everyone” excludes corp and other artificial entities Dywidag Systems Intl Canada- only humans […]
Corporation Thoughts
From the very beginning, the film demonized the corporation and it felt like a dark deep black hole from there revealing the terrible things corporations do—as the film points out, they are solely motivated by profit. I made a conscious decision to try and find some parts in the film that portrayed the corporation in […]