http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/trade-and-environment/publications/ccfta-prorogued-be-ready-action-when-parliament-resumes
CCFTA Prorogued. Be ready for action when Parliament resumes
2010-03-03
Widely Opposed CCFTA which died with prorogation will likely rise again.
By Janet M Eaton, Trade and Environment Campaigner, SCC.
Bill C-23, the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) Implementation Act, which has created a furor of opposition in Canada, was temporarily sidelined, along with 35 other bills working their way through Parliament, when Stephen Harper prorogued parliament on December 31st 2009. This controversial agreement with Colombia has been opposed by a majority of Canadians, Canadian NGOs, the Parliamentary Committee on International Trade and three political parties, the Bloc Quebecois, the NDP and the Green Party of Canada. Many reasons have been cited for opposing this agreement the most reprehensible of which are Colombia´s well known abuses of human rights.
Although the Harper government is presently on a free trade binge signing bi-lateral agreements on all fronts, the CCFTA , more than all the others, is beyond the pale of Canadian values, sense of fairness and commitment to international obligations. Nor do Canadians buy the arguments of the Harper government and Liberal
Party of Canada that conditions have improved enough that we should support and reward the Uribe government. --snip--
For complete article see http://www.sierraclub.ca/en/trade-and-environment/publications/ccfta-
prorogued-be-ready-action-when-parliament-resumes
See also linked educational power point "Why Oppose the CCFTA"?
http://www.sierraclub.ca/sites/sierraclub.ca/files/cancolumbia_fta-
dec_25th_0.pdf
See attached images of protests on Parliament Hill using huge puppets
of Harper, Colombian President Uribe and paramilitaries
http://www.sierraclub.ca/sites/sierraclub.ca/files/ccfta_puppets_prote
st_2.jpg
p.s Feel free to use this fmaterial for lobbying on this issue and to
distribute widely.
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