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Challenging the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America
A report by the Council of Canadians
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND SPONSORS
Planning committee
Council of Canadians
Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians is Canada’s largest citizens’ organization,
with over 70 volunteer chapters and members across the country. Through reports and
activism from its local chapters, the Council works to protect Canadian independence by
promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, energy security, public health
care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians. The Council does
not accept money from corporations or governments, and is sustained entirely by the
volunteer energy and fi nancial assistance of its members.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Founded in 1980, the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is an independent, nonpartisan
research institute concerned with issues of social and economic justice. The
CCPA offers analysis and policy ideas to the media, general public, social justice and
labour organizations, academia and government through research studies, policy briefs,
books, editorials and commentary, and other publications, including The Monitor, a
monthly magazine. The CCPA is a registered non-profit charity that depends on the
support of more than 10,000 members across Canada.
Canadian Labour Congress
The Canadian Labour Congress is the largest democratic and popular organization in
Canada with over 3 million members, including national and international unions, the
provincial and territorial federations of labour, and 137 district labour councils. The goal
of the CLC is to bring together the majority of unions in Canada in a unifi ed, national
voice. On Parliament Hill, in boardrooms, at international conferences, in media events,
in demonstrations or on picket lines, the CLC supports and educates unionists in the
fi ght for strong workplaces, pressures governments for change, builds coalitions with
like-minded groups, and strengthens solidarity between workers in Canada and other
countries.
Common Frontiers
Common Frontiers is a multi-sectoral working group which confronts and proposes an
alternative to the social, environmental and economic effects of economic integration in
the Americas. It works towards this goal through a combination of research, analysis and
action in cooperation with labour, human rights, environmental, church, development and
economic and social justice organizations.
Other sponsors
The Canadian Union of Public Employees
Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada
Canadian Autoworkers Union
Public Service Alliance of Canada
National Union of Public and General Employees
Special thanks
Venue coordination: Margit Baird, OCDSB Community Use of Schools; Norman McEvoy
and Louise Smith, the Vendange Institute; Roch Beland, Ottawa Technical High School;
Geoff Graham, AVW-TELAV; Mat Ashton, Wall Sound; Jacqueline Rivas, InterpretCan.
Strategy session planning and facilitation: Bev Burke, Joel Harden, Michael Stephens,
Sara Kemp, Erin Simpson, Phillip Smith, George Irish, Robert Hatfield, Cathy Remus, Ian
Boyko.
Power in Numbers concert: Nomadic Massive, Soul Jazz Orchestra, DJ Rise Ashen,
Andrew Vincent and the Pirates, John Akpata, Ritallin, Doretta Charles, Kenji Toyooka,
Matt Cameron, Sean Scallon and Capital Music Hall.
All round helpfulness and great work: Scott Sigurdson; Christina Riley; Rehana Tejpar;
Lorna Parent, WE Travel; Denis Laurin, Plantagenet Printers; Sheila Muxlow, teach-in
outreach coordinator; and the staff of the Council of Canadians.
Report
Writer: Ariel Troster
Photographers: Christina Riley, Mike Young and Doug Hayes
The Council of Canadians
700-170 Laurier Avenue West
Ottawa, ON K1P 5V5
1-800-387-7177
Canadians.org
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