Corporatizing Canada

Making Business out of Public Service

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Pub Date 15 May 2018 | Archive Date 31 May 2018

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From schools to hospitals, from utilities to food banks, over the past thirty years corporatization has transformed the public sector in Canada. Economic elites take control of public institutions and use business metrics to evaluate their performance, transforming public programs into corporate revenue streams.

Senior managers use corporate methodology to set priorities in social services and create "market-friendly" public sector cultures. Even social activist organizations increasingly look and act like multinational corporations while non-governmental organizations pursue partnerships with the same corporations they ostensibly oppose.

However, little attention has been devoted to exploring what corporatization means, to investigating how it is employed in different institutions, or to assessing its impact. Corporatizing Canada critically examines how corporatization has been implemented in different ways across the Canadian public sector and warns us of the threat that neoliberal corporatization poses to democratic decision-making and the public at large.

From schools to hospitals, from utilities to food banks, over the past thirty years corporatization has transformed the public sector in Canada. Economic elites take control of public...


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The development of Canadian public services to the model of a corporation is not something that most of us think about. This book is an eye opener. It takes a look at such elements as education, the administration of justice and Health Care and shows how they have been degraded by this business mantra to make the corporate ethic of control and management the core element of these services. Why is this being done? The answer as to how and why are adequately and comprehensively covered in this work. Well researched and referenced you can't find something better or more up to date. This book goes a long way to giving the reader a clear picture of what has happend in the last 20 year or so years. I highly recommend this book for anyone in Canada or anyone who is interested in what is happening to public services.

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