Article contains significant errors. MEC was never owned by its members. If it were, we would have had a say when it was sold, voting on whether to accept the offer, and receiving a share of the payout. MEC was never actually a cooperative. I think there should be consequences for this deception. I also think there need to be more consumer cooperatives than there are. Please mention any you know below.
No option for a cooperative? That’s news in the agricultural world. There’s plenty of rural coops, we have one locally called Pembina West Cooperators and it’s been around for decades, as long as I can remember. UFA is another one, hell, it started out as a political party. We get annual dividends back from them based on our spending throughout the year, against the profit of the coop.