This is a serious question, I'm curious.
In the US there's frequent debate that large Corporations have entity rights that intrude/overpower the rights of individual citizens or even above citizens.
For example, US Corporations can give campaign money to elected officials or their corporate affiliates.
US Corporations have limited liability and they can go bankrupt, re-organize, and individuals are screwed when they go bankrupt.
Voting rights within Corporations can be very sketchy when the person voted to represent stakeholders has powerful political influence.
In Canada, how are corporations different from in the US?
And based on what Canadians know about US Corporate personhood, would you agree that this song is well-fitting for the US? In your opinion?
You are a person
I am a person
With flesh and blood and
With mind and conscience
A corporation
Is not a person
That word belongs to you and me
They rape and plunder
The world’s resources
Destroying Forests
And Killing Wildlife
The corporation
Must turn a profit
Trampling over you and me
They dump their money
Into elections
Buying our Congress
And Legislators
The corporation
A Legal Fiction
Now has more rights than you and me
The robber barons
Bought off the judges
To give them rights in
The Constitution
Who said the courts had
The right to do that
That job belongs to you and me
The first amendment
Protects our freedom
Of free expression
And of religion
The corporations
Have gone and stole it
Those rights belonged to you and me
The fourth amendment
Requires warrants
For search and seizure
But Corporations
Evade the health codes
And regulations
And Environmental Laws
Whenever Walmart
Destroys a Main Street
And all the people
Rise up and Protest
The Corporate Crimes of
Discrimination
Override democracy
If we the people
Are truly soverign
And rule the country
Through our elections
Then we must take back
From Corporations
Right that were meant for you and me
In the US there's frequent debate that large Corporations have entity rights that intrude/overpower the rights of individual citizens or even above citizens.
For example, US Corporations can give campaign money to elected officials or their corporate affiliates.
US Corporations have limited liability and they can go bankrupt, re-organize, and individuals are screwed when they go bankrupt.
Voting rights within Corporations can be very sketchy when the person voted to represent stakeholders has powerful political influence.
In Canada, how are corporations different from in the US?
And based on what Canadians know about US Corporate personhood, would you agree that this song is well-fitting for the US? In your opinion?
You are a person
I am a person
With flesh and blood and
With mind and conscience
A corporation
Is not a person
That word belongs to you and me
They rape and plunder
The world’s resources
Destroying Forests
And Killing Wildlife
The corporation
Must turn a profit
Trampling over you and me
They dump their money
Into elections
Buying our Congress
And Legislators
The corporation
A Legal Fiction
Now has more rights than you and me
The robber barons
Bought off the judges
To give them rights in
The Constitution
Who said the courts had
The right to do that
That job belongs to you and me
The first amendment
Protects our freedom
Of free expression
And of religion
The corporations
Have gone and stole it
Those rights belonged to you and me
The fourth amendment
Requires warrants
For search and seizure
But Corporations
Evade the health codes
And regulations
And Environmental Laws
Whenever Walmart
Destroys a Main Street
And all the people
Rise up and Protest
The Corporate Crimes of
Discrimination
Override democracy
If we the people
Are truly soverign
And rule the country
Through our elections
Then we must take back
From Corporations
Right that were meant for you and me