To the Editor:

My letter is in response to the one written by William Dascavich of Edmonton, headlined “Real power lies with shadowy corporate elite lobby group, not Parliament, readers suggests,” which appeared in the Jan. 13 edition of the Thompson Citizen.

Dascavich talked about how corporate Canada really runs our government. How absolutely correct the said letter was.

  The United States is run the same way; lobbyists for corporate America, many of them ex-senators and congressmen all work to get corporate America’s agendas into law.

  Here in Canada they play the game more subtly and more sneakily and there all types of misleading names and titles are used to cover-up and hide the corporate dictatorship in Canada. The fact that corporations, banks and very wealthy people can steal, rob and avoid taxes due to Canada is an affront to democracy. Just because they call little islands and out of the way places “offshore” should never mean they can steal and plunder, avoid and rob the people of Canada.

  Of course government lackeys and corporate serfs are in place to legalize and legitimatize tax theft for the corporations and the wealthy. MPs or others who really try to change the corrupt system do not last long in government. If they can’t be bought-off, they are pushed out or demonized in the corporate media.

And they call it democracy!

Raymond Moffat Hughes

Trail. B.C.