The Entitled Ease of the Elite: A Canadian Perspective

• In Event: Global Cultural Criminology

Abstract

This paper looks at the mechanisms through which financial corruption thrives both in Canadian society and elsewhere. There is a significant literature that examines the embeddedness of capitalism and the biases and advantages that this provides to all profit-directed activities. My focus is on the social and legislative ways in which the embeddedness is demonstrated and simultaneously denied while serving as a life-style of the financially advantaged. The "Panama Papers" and "Paradise Papers" indicate that the cases that reach the media are merely exposed sampling of business as usual. This paper focuses on domestic issues, where many of the same ‘business as usual’ rules apply.

Author

• Margaret E. Beare, York University