Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us

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The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax

Linda McQuaig, Neil Brooks

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English

Dundurn Press
16 April 2026

Poverty & unemployment; Economic growth; Business ethics

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 destroying the very viability of the earth for human life.

Their staggering power and hoarding of wealth have prompted a number of G20 nations to consider imposing a wealth tax, aimed exclusively at the super-rich. In Canada, such a tax would apply only to those with wealth above $25 million. Yet it could collect $40 billion a year - funding public programs that could immensely improve the lives of millions of Canadians while clipping the wings of the super-rich.

Billionaires would threaten to depart. But as they left the country that had nourished them and enabled them to grow so wildly rich, they'd face a hefty ""exit tax"" on the way out.

Yes, change is possible.

By: Linda McQuaig, Neil Brooks
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions: Height: 228mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 297g
ISBN: 9781459754836
ISBN 10: 1459754832
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 16 April 2026
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Cancelling Billionaires Before They Cancel Us: The Urgent Case for a Wealth Tax

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, New York Times bestselling author of Capital in the Twenty-First Century *