Canada's stores abound with consumer goods and the present corporate ideology is dedicated to increasing the number and variety of these goods for the(...)

Original Toronto Star caption: Canada's stores abound with consumer goods and the present corporate ideology is dedicated to increasing the number and variety of these goods for the majority who participate in the affluent society; says Charles Taylor. He feels we should put more of our resources into the kind of policies which can come to grips with the problems of poverty by de-emphasizing this consumption.