Wolfville challenges Liberal support for Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement

Council of Canadians and the Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) organized a forum and rally on December 3-4, 2009 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia.

VIDEO: A panel discussion, rally and march highlighting the problems with - and Scott Brison's support of - the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. December 3, 2009
 

The Council of Canadians organized a panel at Acadia University on December 3 to present background on the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement. Kings-Hants MP Scott Brison was invited to speak by Angela Giles, the panel’s moderator and Council of Canadians' Atlantic Regional Coordinator. He extended an invitation to a special session with the MP on the following day and handed out copies of a Brison speech in Parliament in favour of the Colombia agreement.

On December 4, over 100 protestors joined the rally at Brison’s office at noon with banners and giant puppets. The crowd marched along Main Street to the Beveridge Arts Centre for Brison's event where they were kept quiet by security.

Media

• Opposition to Canada-Colombia free trade continues, New Brunswick Media Co-op, December 22, 2009
• Trade issue stirs up protestors, politician Colombian deal questions Canada’s own democratic principles, The Advertiser, December 8 2009

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updated March 5, 2010