The Council of Canadians made a statement in response to the budget 2013. “This budget fails Canadians," said Brent Patterson, political director, Council of Canadians. "It continues a privatization agenda for water, a trade agenda that doesn't equate to job growth, a health care agenda that will cut billions of needed dollars, and a resource extraction … Read more
The Council of Canadians said people across Canada and around the world are marking March 18 as the fourth Bottled Water Free Day. The council said over 25 events are being held across the country highlighting the negative impacts of bottled water, and the need to defend public water resources and infrastructure from privatization. The … Read more
The Council of Canadians delivered a mock invoice to Environment Minister Peter Kent (Thornhill, Ont.) constituency office in Thornhill, Ont., for the estimated $50 million it will cost to remediate the Experimental Lakes Area (ELA). The council said that earlier this month, the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) announced that it wants to terminate … Read more
The Canadian Health Coalition and Council of Canadians are asking the government, and the provinces of Quebec and Ontario, not to cave in to pressure from French prime minister Jean-Marc Ayrault to extend patent terms and other monopoly protections on brand name drugs in the ongoing Canada-EU trade negotiations (CETA). Ayrault will meet Prime Minister Stephen … Read more
The Council of Canadians sent a letter to the Canadian government urging it to stop the planned shipment of weapons-grade uranium from the Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd.’s Chalk River facility to the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. The council said the plans would see 23,000 litres of acid containing Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) … Read more
The Council of Canadians is asking whether anti-counterfeiting legislation, Bill C-56, introduced in the House of Commons is one of the conditions the U.S. government put on Canada joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade negotiations, which continue in Singapore this week. The council sees no other reason why Canada would voluntarily bring itself in line … Read more
The Council of Canadians is responding to the EU commissioner’s demands for more concessions from Canada in the ongoing Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) negotiations by urging the government to walk away from the talks. The council said Canada has already been far too willing to put too much on the negotiating table, endangering … Read more
The Council of Canadians is opposed to a west-to-east oil pipeline plan being proposed by TransCanada Corp., which is supported in principle by the government, and enthusiastically backed by the Alberta and New Brunswick provincial governments. The pipeline – which could move upwards of one million barrels of oil from Alberta per day – would … Read more
The Council of Canadians and its Nelson, B.C., chapter are celebrating a decision by City Council to demand a permanent exemption for the city from the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement. Over 40 municipal councils, school boards or associations, including large cities like Toronto, Hamilton, Mississauga and Victoria, have sought similar protections. The … Read more
The Council of Canadians recently obtained a copy of Environment Canada’s work plan on shale gas development under an access to information request. The heavily redacted documents, "Activities Related to Shale Gas Development” and “Shale Gas Action Plan,” outline the department’s work on shale gas including researching emissions, gathering information on chemicals and provincial regulatory … Read more
