My weekend reading for Sunday March 29th, 2026:  A book on Private Equity firms buying businesses in America and this is happening in the health care system here in Canada

“Plunder: Private Equity’s Plan to Pillage America”. Should we be entrusting healthcare to private equity moguls? The person should be the number 1 objective. We see increasing private equity involvement in homecare and we worry about the future of care globally if the person is not front and centre.

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year – A fortune Best Book of the Year Noted from the back of the book by Brendad Ballou

“Private equity surrounds us. If you rented an apartment, saw a doctor or rode in an ambulance, bought insurance or paid your student loads, you possibly did so through a private equity-owned company. In this book, Brendan Ballou explains how this mysterious industry has reshaped our lives by cutting costs and raising prices, and how private equity firms often profit, even when companies they buy fail. With trillions of dollars under its control, private equity is poised to reshape America in this decade the way that “Big Tech” did in the last decade, and subprime lenders did in the decade before that. Unless we stop it. Plunder tells us how.”

Brendan Ballou served as special counsel for private equity in the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.