Five years ago, as part of the worldwide Jubilee debt campaign, 640,000 Canadians signed a petition calling for the cancellation of low-income countries' foreign debts.
We need your help to make Export Development Canada (EDC) more transparent!!
CALL TO ACTION
EDC continues to withhold key environmental information about the projects it supports, citing reasons of commercial confidentiality. When it does disclose information prior to supporting a project, this can be from one day to two weeks prior to signing the cheque.
In 1999, Amnesty International raised alarms about the killing of four indigenous people protesting a hydroelectric dam in Colombia that has devastated their food source and, if completed, would flood most of their land.
In 1998, an accident at a mine in Kyrgystan resulted in two tons of cyanide entering a river. A lack of an emergency response plan worsened the disaster, leaving two people dead and over 600 hospitalized.
A Call to Action
A Citizen's Agenda for Reform of the Global Economic System
I. INTRODUCTION: Open the Debate
We need your help to make Export Development Canada (EDC) more transparent!!
EDC continues to withhold key environmental information about the projects it supports, citing reasons of commercial confidentiality. When it does disclose information prior to supporting a project, this can be from one day to two weeks prior to signing the cheque.
Help Stop Canadian Human Right Violations and Environmental Disasters Abroad!
SIGN OUR PETITION and voice your demand to regulate the activities of Canadian mining, oil and gas companies overseas.
Do YOU care about Canada’s image abroad? Believe that companies should be more accountable? We need your help.
We need your help to make Export Development Canada (EDC) more transparent!!
EDC continues to withhold key environmental information about the projects it supports, citing reasons of commercial confidentiality. When it does disclose information prior to supporting a project, this can be from one day to two weeks prior to signing the cheque.
Dear Halifax Initiative Rapid Response Network,
Please note that this coming month is a critical time for the campaign to cancel the debt of poor countries. We are asking you to take action to help make 100% debt cancellation a possibility for the poorest countries, with no conditions attached.
What you can do?
1) Call Prime Minister Martin, Minister Goodale and your MP and tell them you want Canada to support cancelling the debt (see note below and attached)
