Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us
The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax
$43.09
- Paperback
266 pages
- Release Date
26 May 2026
Summary
A GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER
A jarring portrait of a deeply unequal Canada and how a wealth tax could rein in the destructive power wielded by today’s billionaires.
As the ultra-wealthy siphon off an ever-larger share of the world’s wealth, they now dominate us to a degree unimaginable even a decade ago. With their voracious consumption, unbridled resource exploitation, and relentless obstruction of climate action, they are rapidly undermining democracy and des…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781459754836 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1459754832 |
| Author: | Linda McQuaig, Neil Brooks |
| Publisher: | Dundurn Group Ltd |
| Imprint: | Dundurn Group Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 266 |
| Release Date: | 26 May 2026 |
| Weight: | 418g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 152mm x 228mm |
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Critics Review
A must read. This is a very important book explaining why it is so urgent to confront the extreme concentration of wealth and power — and why global mobilization is building. * Thomas Piketty, bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century *
Stalwart Canadian investigative journalist Linda McQuaig has teamed up with long-time collaborator, tax scholar Neil Brooks to release a timely, meticulously researched book on a familiar topic: Make the rich pay.
* Jamie Swift, The Kingston Crow *Linda McQuaig
Linda McQuaig is an award-winning investigative journalist, a Toronto Star columnist, and the author of eight non-fiction national bestsellers. She lives in Toronto.
Neil Brooks is a leading tax scholar and former director of the graduate program in taxation at Osgoode Hall Law School. He lives in Toronto.
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