G8

Letter to Prime Minister Harper with respect to the agenda of the June 2013 G-8 meeting in Ireland.

British Prime Minister Cameron has announced that standards for multilateral information exchange, increasing transparency of the ownership of trusts and companies, and reform of global tax rules will be key items on the agenda of the G-8 meeting this June. These are policy positions that NGOs have promoted for many years. We have written to Prime Minister Harper to urge that Canada take a progressive position on these issues and help move them forward.

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Group of 20 (G20)

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Multilateral Organizations:

Group of Twenty

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Consultation sur la LOI ODA - 2011

Le 17 février 2011,

L’Honorable James Flaherty
Ministre des Finances
Ministère des Finances Canada
140, O’Connor Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0G5

Monsieur le Ministre,

Re : consultation 2010-2011 au sujet de la Loi sur la responsabilité en matière d’aide au développement officielle

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Monthly Issue Update - January 31, 2011

Ruggie guidelines stir debate
In 2008, the UN Human Rights Council extended Special Representative John Ruggie’s mandate on business and human rights. Among other things, the Council asked Mr. Ruggie to identify “concrete and practical recommendations on ways to strengthen the fulfilment of the duty of the State to protect all human rights from abuses by or involving transnational corporations.”

Monthly Issue Update - May 31/June 30, 2010

G8-G20 summits fall flat, ignore call for sustainable future
This month “Fortress Toronto”, with its 18,000 strong security forces and four kilometer chain link fence, bore witness to a Peoples’ Summit ripe with ideas and alternatives, petitions signed by 1.75 million asking leaders to invest in the future now, a 25,000 strong peaceful protest, media stunts galore, some regrettable violence, and two deeply disappointing summits.

The Millennium Development Goals

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- General acknowledgements
- MDG specific acknowledgements
- Interviewees
- Funders and contributors
- Full MDG script (word doc)

Final script May 22, 2010; release date June 18, 2010.

DNTG8 - MDGs.mp3

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DNTG8

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International Financial Institutions:

World Bank

International Monetary Fund

Alternatives

Bretton Woods Institutions

Multilateral Organizations:

United Nations

Group of Twenty

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

World Trade Organization

Group of Seven

Government of Canada:

Finance Canada

Canadian International Development Agency

Thematic Issue:

IFI policies and positions

Government of Canada policies and positions

Sustainability

Poverty

Millennium Development Goals

Development Finance:

Domestic resource mobilization

Financial architecture

Global financial crisis

Heavily Indebted Poor Countries

Millennium development

Millennium development goals

Official Development Assistance

Structural adjustment

Trade

Washington consensus

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Bridge to South Korea: Global civil society meeting on the G20

Bridge to South Korea

Held in Toronto, on Monday and Tuesday, June 21-22, 2010, just ahead of the G8 Summit in Huntsville and the G20 Summit in Toronto, this meeting was intended as a strategy session for civil society organizations, platforms and networks from many G20 countries (and beyond) to discuss diverse perspectives on both the G20 as an institution and priorities with respect to its agenda.

As the outcome of an initial G20 strategy meeting in Washington DC in April of 2010 among various groups, the intention of this broader meeting of national, regional and international networks was three-fold:

To develop a greater understanding of the key issues on the G20 agenda as well as alternative agendas seeking to influence the G20;
To strengthen and solidify strategic connections among G20 and non-G20 countries in the lead up to the South Korean and French G20 meetings and strengthen the capacities of networks to develop their own analysis and strategies for confronting the G20;
To develop concrete ideas and proposals for collaboration with South Korean colleagues for the November Summit.

MEETING DETAILS

Final concept note - Bridge to South Korea: Global G20 Meeting
Final concept note - en Español
Final agenda
Participant's list
Presentations
- Peter Chowla - G20 and public finance policy
- Aniket Bhushan - G20 and private finance policy
Calendar of events (including events in South Korea)
Final Report | Rapport final
Final Report - en Español
Mapping of national groups and priorities
Key contacts and focal points working on G20 issues
Funders

Bridge to South Korea

To develop a greater understanding of the key issues on the G20 agenda as well as alternative agendas seeking to influence the G20;
To strengthen and solidify strategic connections among G20 and non-G20 countries in the lead up to the South Korean and French G20 meetings and strengthen the capacities of networks to develop their own analysis and strategies for confronting the G20;
To develop concrete ideas and proposals for collaboration with South Korean colleagues for the November Summit.

MEETING DETAILS

Final concept note - Bridge to South Korea: Global G20 Meeting
Final concept note - en Español
Final agenda
Participant's list
Presentations
- Peter Chowla - G20 and public finance policy
- Aniket Bhushan - G20 and private finance policy
Calendar of events (including events in South Korea)
Final Report | Rapport final
Final Report - en Español
Mapping of national groups and priorities
Key contacts and focal points working on G20 issues
Funders

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Press Release: May 18, 2010

Robin Hood Tax: Canada misses a chance for Leadership

OTTAWA – The Canadian Government is missing an historic opportunity to offer constructive global leadership by refusing to consider any kind of levy on the global financial sector.

“There are two proposals on the table here,” said Fraser Reilly-King of the Halifax Initiative. “One would save the banks, the other would save the world. At a time when global poverty is rising, along with sea levels, and European economies are crashing, the Harper government is actively campaigning against both.”

A Bank Tax would apply broadly and ensure future bailout funds would come from banks themselves, not the public. Canada’s counterproposal involves “embedded contingent capital,” which would shift the burden to shareholders, turning [contingent] bonds to equity if the banks run into trouble.

Presentation to the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development on the Financial Transactions Tax

Innovative mechanisms for financing development, and in particular the Financial Transactions Tax

by Fraser Reilly-King, Coordinator, Halifax Initiative Coalition
May 6, 2010

My name is Fraser Reilly-King and I am the Coordinator of the Halifax Initiative, a coalition of eighteen development, environment, faith-based, human rights and labour organizations. We focus on international finance issues, in particular with respect to the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and export credit agencies.