Isn’t it particularly indecent to see the astronomical profits of oil companies and grocery chains in these particularly difficult times for the poor and the middle class?
Montreal posted gas prices at $2.15 per liter on Sunday. In order to explain this alienating madness towards the race for filthy profits, we will obviously fall back on the war in Ukraine…
How can we accept such an aberration? How not to be outraged by such immoderate thirst for money? How is it that we are thus trapped, even abandoned, in the hands of these unscrupulous and soulless profiteers?
Metro, the food giant, recorded a net profit of 198.1 million (+5.3%) in its second quarter of 2022. The situation is similar for Empire, which owns the IGA chain, among others, with profits of more than 175.4 million during its most recent quarter (+5%). In these troubled and difficult times, it becomes downright indecent, even immoral, to take advantage of people in this way by crushing them even more under the weight of debt and stress.
Now what about the gravediggers of the planet, the oil companies?
During the first quarter of the year, Imperial Oil almost tripled its net profit (+198%) causing its staggering profits to oscillate at 1.17 billion dollars. This is a record amount in more than 30 years at Imperial Oil. More recently, on May 9, Suncor Petro-Canada announced quarterly net profit up 259% to $2.95 billion. Can we imagine the staggering profits for the next quarter for these gravediggers of the planet?
The only word that comes to mind is the word IMMORAL.
Immoral are you, Metro and IGA! Immoral are you, gravediggers of the planet such as Petro-Canada, Esso, Ultramar.
Finally, immoral are you, unscrupulous shareholders, whose heart beats only to the rhythm of profit and money! What poverty… of the heart!