We’re all in this together, except for the ones at the top
By Lethbridge Herald on October 24, 2025.
Editor,
If buying Canadian results in continued high prices to pay CEOs of these companies tens of millions, it raises a concern: Are we buying Canadian so CEOs can keep their share price up and reward shareholders with dividends. or are we buying Canadian to ensure Canadian jobs?
I find this a rather two-faced marketing ploy “the Chicken Company” hoses you for a bucket and the CEO drags in millions . The plea is to ensure shareholders get their dividends and he gets his bonus. A drop in price for a bucket? Don’t hold your breathe even though “we are all in this together”!
While you ponder whether you can afford your next head of lettuce, the grocery store group pleads with Canadians to keep buying no matter how broke you are so the CEO’s $12million dollar paycheck (not including bonuses) keeps rolling in. After all, we are all in this together, right?
Buy Canadian steel? Does that mean our steel producers will produce a made-in-Canada price or feel the need to follow world pricing per tonne? If I buy Quebec aluminum, is the intent to keep a piece of angle at $90 or are we “all in this together”?
Do unions continue to pilfer the public purse and hold the rest of us for ransom, or are we “all in this together”?
Do lumber tariffs that cripple B.C. get the same air time as Quebec and Ontario’s autos and steel/aluminum because “we are all in this together”?
Does an imaginary pipeline cause the provinces to unite in an optimistic outlook for Canada because we are “all in this together” or does it stimulate interprovincial protectionism again?
Does the Canola cash cause one to dump the 100 per cent tariffs on Chinese EVs because we are “all in this together” or does Captain Ontario get the last say?
Do Canadians decide to stay in Canada because they understand that we are “all in this together” or submit to fingerprinting because, after all, we are really mean people?
Do we re-mortgage our devaluing assets to make sure we support the Chicken Company CEO’s $39million paycheck ? I look forward to buying a “one-wing meal” because, we are all in this together, right?
Dennis Bremner
Lethbridge
14-13
Buy Canadian ? Hire migrants? Liberals pay large subsidy to firms that hire migrants. Liberal politics at work.
A change to non-profit companies is needed.
Excellent article. I think most Canadians look for the Made In Canada sticker and, if the price is high but competitive, they buy Canadian. I also think CEOs are only concerned with their bottom line and if they can squeeze a few more cents out of the consumer they will raise their prices. Hell some grocery chains were doing this way before this tariff war. Unions will continue to fight for higher wages using past no or low settlements and increased cost of living. Bottom line is that consumers will suffer.
“The federal government wants us to believe that fewer foreign workers would mean more jobs for Canadians. But this obscures a basic truth: the businesses that hire these workers are struggling to attract Canadian workers because they pay ultra-low wages. They have lobbied for a cheap, easily exploitable workforce – like temporary foreign workers whose residency in Canada is tied to their job – and the federal government has been caving into their demands.”
https://canadians.org/analysis/fed-up-with-the-cost-of-living-blame-bosses-and-billionaires-not-migrants/
I understand some businesses need foreign workers because no Canadian wants to work and can afford to work for minimum wage. However, the govt needs to do better audits of companies that hire foreign workers then severally punish those that don’t follow the rules.
great queries, d.b.
the system is utterly out of balance when it comes to sharing the spoils. the utmost wealthy keep raking it in, and always more, while the masses lose ground. the kicker is that so much of what we are taxed finds its way into the hands of utmost wealthy, under the fancy names given to the sundry terms that amount to corporate welfare.