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	Council of Canadians - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Council of Canadians is a left-wing think tank in Canada that was founded in 1985.
		The Council is politically to the left of the ruling Liberal Party of Canada, and its beliefs are even less aligned with the opposition Conservative Party of Canada.
		The Council was against the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and the North American Free Trade Agreement, and remains highly critical of their effects.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Council_of_Canadians (162 words)

	Council of Canadians
		The Council of Canadians is a national, non-partisan, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation and enhancement of Canadian political and democratic sovereignty.
		The council supports social and cultural institutions, and seeks to limit foreign control of the Canadian economy.
		The Council works with similar groups in other countries and was instrumental in founding the Action Canada Network, a coalition of organizations representing farmers, nurses, teachers, environmentalists, unions, artists and anti-poverty, women's and church groups.
	www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&ArticleId=A0001959 (147 words)

	Council of Canadians -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Council of Canadians is a (additional info and facts about left-wing) left-wing (A company that does research for hire and issues reports on the implications) think tank in (A nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada) Canada that was founded in 1985.
		The Council is politically to the left of the ruling (additional info and facts about Liberal Party of Canada) Liberal Party of Canada, and its beliefs are even less aligned with the opposition (additional info and facts about Conservative Party of Canada) Conservative Party of Canada.
		The Council was against the (additional info and facts about Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement) Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and the (additional info and facts about North American Free Trade Agreement) North American Free Trade Agreement, and remains highly critical of their effects.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/co/council_of_canadians.htm (194 words)

	Buried Alive? The Bulyanhulu accusations
		To release the evidence, the Council of Canadians, Mining Watch Canada and the NGO Working Group were joined by Tundu Lissu, a human rights lawyer from Tanzania who has been monitoring this case for years.
		McDonough lent her voice to a group of Tanzanian, Canadian and American advocacy groups that are calling for an independent review of claims that 52 miners were killed in August, 1996, as part of an effort to clear artisanal miners from the area.
		The Council of Canadians, which released the evidence, maintains that since the allegations are about the local police, government officials and company employees, an impartial investigation is warranted.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Company/bulyanhulu1.htm (2225 words)

	POLL - Canadians Prefer Policies Independent of the U.S. : Thunderbay IMC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Canadians were informed that the Canadian government wishes to repair relations with the U.S. after a series of high-profile disagreements, including over the invasion of Iraq.
		Canadians Prefer Independent Policies from the U.S. OTTAWA, ONTARIO (March 31, 2003) — An Ipsos-Reid poll released today shows that Canadians support independent policies from the U.S. Canadians were informed that the Canadian government wishes to repair relations with the U.S. after a series of high-profile disagreements, including over the invasion of Iraq.
		The Ipsos-Reid poll was conducted with 1056 Canadian adults between March 23 and March 25 2004 and was commissioned by the Council of Canadians and the Polaris Institute.
	thunderbay.indymedia.org /print.php?id=13194 (487 words)

	The Council of Canadians
		Security, the Canadians were told, trumps all other concerns; if they wanted the border to stay open, they would have to help build a security perimeter around North America and support America's military, energy and economic interests abroad.
		The Canadian Council of Chief Executives was happy to oblige; it has long wanted a common market and lower common standards for cross-border trade and has been willing to offer up Canadian controls protecting resources, health and safety, and border sovereignty in exchange.
		Canadians are good neighbours and want to work with the Americans to ensure the safety of their citizens and our own at our shared borders.
	www.canadians.org /browse_categories.htm?COC_token=23@@450873292e542dcb4057695377d2c527&step=2&catid=10&iscat=1 (907 words)

	NAFTA Trade Rules Trump Environment - Again
		It is the position of the Council of Canadians that Canadians have the right to intervene fully at these secretive trade panels.
		The Council of Canadians along with other groups has gone to the Canadian courts to intervene in this case, but was recently denied this right by the Supreme Court.
		The Council of Canadians is pressing Minister Pettigrew to follow the recommendation (known as Recommendation 21) of one of his committees not to include the provisions of Chapter 11 in the FTAA.
	www.holycrossjustice.org /NAFTAtraderules.htm (345 words)

	Council of Canadians welcomes WTO protestors to Fredericton : IMC Maritimes
		Organized by the Fredericton Chapter of the Council of Canadians, the hour-long reception and rally featured anti-corporate globalization songs by the Raging Grannies and brief comments from organizers of the WTO protest effort.
		Council of Canadians representative Wayne Macdonald said they were very pleased with the event.
		The Council of Canadians is quite clear in that there is nothing wrong with trade per se.
	maritimes.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=6190 (445 words)

	FREDERICTON CHAPTER - Council of Canadians
		Founded in 1985, The Council of Canadians is Canada's pre-eminent citizens' watchdog organization, comprised of over 100,000 members and more than 70 Chapters across the country.
		The Council does not accept money from corporations or governments, and is sustained entirely by the volunteer energy and financial assistance of its members.
		The Fredericton chapter of the Council of Canadians is a group of activists fighting for democracy, social justice and Canadian sovereignty.
	www.geocities.com /ftnchapcofc (151 words)

	CUPW - 2003-05-30 - The Council of Canadians and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers File Evidence in Constitutional ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The Council of Canadians (the Council) and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) have joined forces to challenge the validity of NAFTA investor-state procedures.
		Professor Lajoie’s evidence examines the nature and extent of the authority of Canadian superior courts in relation to disputes between the Crown and foreign corporations concerning the exercise of governmental authority effecting the proprietary and contractual interests of such foreign investors.
		The impact is to constrain the authority of Canadian governments at all levels as definitively but more arbitrarily than do the norms and limitations imposed by Canada’s constitution and its common law norms.
	www.cupw-sttp.org /pages/document_eng.php?Doc_ID=425 (774 words)

	Council of Canadians: Campaigns: Trade and Investment: Publications: The Free Trade Area of the Americas by Maude Barlow
		Canadians have already seen a steady erosion of their social security under the new rules of economic globalization and trade agreements like NAFTA and the WTO, as Canada's economy has merged into the American orbit and American rules.
		Canadian consumers are left to compete for their own energy resources against an economy 10 times bigger with rapidly dwindling reserves and accelerating demand.
		Canadian exports of water would be guaranteed to the level they had acquired over the preceding 36 months; the more water sent south, the more water required to be sent south.
	www.ratical.com /co-globalize/MBonFTAA.html (11199 words)

	Capital News Online \| Top Story \| Bulk water legislation full of holes, critics say
		Jamie Dunn, water campaigner for the Council of Canadians, says that with the passage of bill C-6, an act to amend the International Boundary Waters Treaty, Canada's water is in danger of being exported in bulk.
		The Canadian government defines a bulk water export as any large-scale removal of water by manmade processes, such as canals, tankers, trucks or pipelines.
		The Council of Canadians started this international project to protect the world's supply of freshwater from private interests and trade threats.
	www.carleton.ca /jmc/cnews/27032002/n1print.shtml (595 words)

	rabble news
		While many critics on the political right criticize the Council as being a thinly-disguised front for the NDP (and the NDP is frustrated that it is not supportive enough), Barlow is adamant about the need for the Council to maintain its strict non-partisan status.
		The Council of Canadians will again be publishing (and web posting) a voters' guide, holding strategy meetings and public events across the country, and holding all-candidates meetings on deep integration.
		In addition to her work with the Council, Barlow is a director with the International Forum on Globalization, a San Francisco-based research and educational institution opposed to economic globalization, and co-founder of the Blue Planet Project, an international civil society movement to stop the commodification of water.
	www.rabble.ca /news_full_story.shtml?sh_itm=2015bf054e0c4485f26247d5d7f202eb&r=1 (1039 words)

	National poll and cross-country protest demonstrate consumers won't be Fooled by GE foods (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		According to the poll conducted for The Council of Canadians by Environics Research Group, three-quarters (75%) of Canadians familiar with GE foods are worried about their safety and almost all (95%) want GE foods labeled as such.
		The Council has been spearheading a national consumer campaign to have GE foods removed from store shelves until they are proven safe to eat.
		Increasing numbers of consumers, scientists and agricultural professionals are calling on the federal government to undertake long-term, independent testing of GE foods to ensure their safety - a step both the government and the GE food industry have resisted.
	www.biotech-info.net /canadian_poll.html (439 words)

	THE CITIZENS' AGENDA FOR CANADA
		Throughout that historic battle, the Council was the constant voice on national sovereignty.
		The FTA fight, in turn, was followed by a series of Council campaigns on the deregulation of the energy industry, the privatization of the CBC and the abrogation of the FTA.
		Canadians are told we have a "deficit" because of too many services the government cannot afford to provide.
	www.pcdf.org /1995/ctagenda.htm (4188 words)

	ALCA - FTAA - ZLEA - Contributions from Civil Society - FTAA.soc/civ/21/Rev.1
		The Council of Canadians is an independent, non-partisan citizen group in Canada with more than 100,000 members and 60 chapters across the country.
		Both the Council and CUPW are deeply concerned by plans to expand the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) to cover 34 countries in the Americas and create the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).
		The Council and CUPW believe that there is an urgent need to strengthen international agreements and institutions, such as those established under the International Labour Organization, environmental treaties, and human rights conventions, to ensure that governments do not continue to ignore such international commitments.
	www.ftaa-alca.org /spcomm/soc/Contributions/Quito/cscv21r1_e.asp (1697 words)

	Protest.Net
		Cliff White, Atlantic Regional Organizer for the Council of Canadians will be presenting the advantages and challenges of a CoC chapter in Halifax, cohabitting with the Atlantic Regional Office.
		In October, the Council had its annual general meeting in Halifax, where the theme of the conference was "Reclaiming The Commons".
		The Council is currently in the process of evolving from a national coordination center for campaigns sponsored by donations from committed Canadians to a grass-roots activist organization.
	www.protest.net /event.cgi?ID=347217&state_values=SITE!.1 (303 words)

	My Blahg
		One day they believe tax cuts are beneficial to Canadians and the next day they believe tax cuts don't accomplish anything.
		Zaphod's Head finds the Canadian media is far superior to the government mouthpieces south of the border.
		Canadian Perspective isn't happy with the new snooping powers the government is planning to give law enforcement officials.
	myblahg.blogspot.com (3396 words)

	CUPW and Council of Canadians take NAFTA to Court (Canadian Union of Public Employees)
		The Canadian Union of Postal Workers and the Council of Canadians have launched a constitutional challenge to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) rules that allow foreign corporations to sue Canada.
		According to CUPW and the Council of Canadians, the problem for a democratic country is that these so called “investor-rights” cannot be enforced in national courts.
		Council of Canadians and Canadian Union of Postal Workers, “Backgrounder: Council of Canadians and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers Launch a Constitutional Challenge to NAFTA Investment Rules”, March 28, 2001, p.
	www.cupe.ca /www/TradeUpdates/3998 (808 words)

	Council Joins Leading Canadians and Mexicans to Launch Independent Task Force on the Future of North America - Council ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The task force is chaired by former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance John P. Manley, former Finance Minister of Mexico Pedro C. Aspe, and former Governor of Massachusetts and Assistant Attorney General William F. Weld.
		Chief Executive of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives Thomas d'Aquino, President of the Mexican Council on Foreign Relations Andres Rozental, and Vice President of International Affairs at American University Robert A. Pastor will serve as vice chairs.
		Council Experts are based in the Council’s New York and Washington offices.
	www.cfr.org /publication.html?id=7454 (806 words)

	Reclaim the Media - reclaimthemedia.org
		In its report released May 17, the Task Force recommends that the Canadian government make a number of large-scale concessions to ensure further integration of Canada and Mexico with the United States.
		The Task Force is a private, well-funded initiative by corporate lobbyists such as the Canadian Council of Chief Executives (CCCE) and high-profile former politicians such as John Manley.
		The Council of Canadians encourages those concerned with preserving Canada’s sovereignty to send a "Stop Deep Integration with Bush’s America" postcard to the Canadian government.
	www.reclaimthemedia.org /stories.php?story=05/05/20/7431049 (593 words)

	Dominion Weblog: The Canada You Stole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		As ineffectual as it is, it is clear and it is principled and it is naïve enough to presume Canadians can be expected to keep their promises, even if periodically they have to be reminded what those promises were.
		The status of this process notwithstanding, the Council of Canadians can work to educate the average Canadian on indigenous rights and the fundamental illegitimacy of the government's current negotiations with the United States.
		Should Canadians face their responsibilities rather than ignore or weasel out of them, you would have the Canada you want rather than the one desired by the rapacious and the covetous.
	dominionpaper.ca /weblog/2004/03/the_canada_you_stole.html (1473 words)

	Council of Canadians
		OTTAWA, ONTARIO - May 14 - The Council of Canadians strongly condemns the Canadian government’s decision to support the United States’ challenge of the European Union’s moratorium on the import of genetically engineered (GE) foods.
		In the Council’s view, this action is a blatant disrespect of the democratic will of European citizens, who repeatedly expressed their opposition to GE foods.
		Unlike the Canadian government, EU officials decided to honour that demand and have been harassed by Canada and the United States ever since.
	www.commondreams.org /news2003/0514-01.htm (362 words)

	Who's In Charge of the Global Economy? Maude Barlow / Council of canadians Fall 1999 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Maude Barlow is the National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians.
		Sun Belt Water Inc. of Santa Barbara, California, is suing the Canadian government because the company lost a contract to export water to California when the government of British Columbia banned the export of bulk water in 1991.
		Although Sun Belt's agreement was with a Canadian company, Snowcap, and not the B.C. government, Sun Belt alleges the ban contravenes NAFTA and is seeking $400 million in damages.
	www.mindfully.org /WTO/Whos-In-Charge.htm (673 words)

	Prominent Canadians worry about American influence - The Varsity - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Organized by the Council of Canadians, an organization committed to issues such as fair trade, social justice and democracy, the event included many anti-American organizations opposed to Canada's participation in the war on Iraq and numerous other American foreign policy strategies.
		Maude Barlow, a well-known activist and national chairperson of the Council of Canadians, reminded listeners that the issues concerning Canada's integration with the US will have immediate consequences on Canadians' lives.
		Now it is Canadian women such as Shania and Avril who are on top of the world's billboard charts.
	www.thevarsity.ca /news/2004/04/01/News/Prominent.Canadians.Worry.About.American.Influence-647781.shtml (598 words)

	GE Food Alert Campaign Center - Headlines
		OTTAWA - A national poll conducted for The Council of Canadians by Environics Research Group shows that three-quarters of those familiar with genetically engineered foods are worried about their safety and that 94% feel Canada should be able to refuse to import GE foods if there are concerns about health or environmental safety.
		"Given Canadians' strong wish to control the import of GE foods, you would think that our own federal environment minister would be in the vanguard of efforts to protect Canadians from the dangers of trade in genetically engineered goods," said Jennifer Story, Health Protection Campaigner with the Council.
		Members of the Council of Canadians will be in Montreal during the Biosafety Protocol negotiations.
	www.gefoodalert.org /News/news.cfm?News_ID=1635 (399 words)

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