In the news 2005

U.S.-Canada 'deep integration' already unfolding
Canada's steady “deep integration” with the United States is being designed and driven by corporate groups on both sides of the border, while being supported by our federal government, says Maude Barlow, spokesperson for the Council of Canadians.
Tor Sandberg, rabble news, November 28, 2005

The Conscience of Canada strikes again
Back in the seventies, an energetic housewife named Maude Barlow jumped onto the feminism bandwagon. A few short years later, she was advising prime minister Pierre Trudeau on women's issues. When she failed in her bid for federal office, she helped found the Council of Canadians, now Canada's main citizen's advocacy group. Ever since, along with a few other citizen's groups, she and the council have been the conscience of Canadian politics...
Jenefer Curtis, The Globe and Mail, Saturday, November 5, 2005 Page D21

NAFTA à la Maude
Council of Canadians founder digs deeper into the selling out of Canada's sovereignty
"I told you so" is in order for Maude Barlow. After 20 years of telling Canadians that free trade with the United States will screw us, it's finally impossible to keep the evidence out of the papers...
Stuart Trew, Ottawa Xpress, November 3, 2005