Canada exists to put holes in the ground and extract surplus value for shareholders. In this episode, originally recorded in 2021, Team Advantage opens the Canadian trench-coat to find total corporate impunity. We discus how the Canadian state facilitates resource extraction within its borders and around the world at the expense of the common good, then imagine what mining might look like in a better society.

Works Cited:

• Canada In The World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination – Tyler Shipley

• Imperial Canada Inc.: Legal Haven of Choice for the World’s Mining Industries – Alain Deneault & William Sacher

• Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction under Late Capitalism – Martín Arboleda

• Canadian Mining in Ecuador series - Brandi Morin