An end-run around Citizens United: passing state laws that ban rewarding campaign donors with political favors

In Canada, the directors of a corporation can be criminally charged for something willfully done that causes harm to workers or others. Look up Westray Mining Disaster.
Here’s the change in Canadian corporate law that occurred; “When the so-called Westray Bill became federal law in 2004, it gave police and prosecutor new rules for attributing criminal liability to corporations and their representatives when workers are injured or killed on the job.”

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