It all sounds so compelling except your party is not speaking the truth to Canadians and you are playing the get party power, keep party power and support party power game with the lives and sovereignty of Canadians hanging in the balance.

Why not advocate to leave NAFTA, and FTA they are charter rights deals for the CCCE and I know you gals know of whom I speak.
(Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the 150 mostly male individuals who really run this nation and sleep with the private bankers by night)

The constitution of this nation has been violated and no protest from the folks who have the handle on the engine of Canadian labour. Shame on you all. Time for a genreral strike, election time is a good time for a general strike.

Social justice and a just transition to environmental sustainability is a union directive. You have the networks the money, the $1.75 per vote and the opportunity, why are you raising the white flag and falling in line with the North American Union?

Why take monetary reform off your platform? Hoping for a good contract? You women have the opportunity to be leaders in this fundamental reform teaching about debt and the Bank of Canada but you are not, when so many Candian and Aboriginal women suffer the dual discrimination of poverty and sexism, and their children and grandchildren too, why? Poverty pimping?

Why aren't you exposing the truth about our troops in Afghanistan, for the sake of the Softwood lumber deal? A backdoor draft is beginning to take root in Canada and you are not screaming about it while you have the country's ear. Canadian miltary and civillian blood has been spilled in the Afghan war zone, what are you mothers and grandmothers doing about it? Raving about your past "successes" of forcing the corrupt Liberals to make more empty promises.

Your ideas of parliamentary reform are about MMP, mixed member proportional, which entrenches power to the parties. Are you supporting and championing a national Citizens Assembly? Why did Carole James, leader of the BC NDP, shoot down the recommendatoins of the BC Citizens' Assembly? People who vote for you women and support the female candidates in the NDP are voting for more power to the party system because they are voting for the party whip not any one of you.

When there is money to be made and lost, then they (the CCCE) "throw their weight behind Kyoto" notice Russel Horner, Catalyst Paper; has signed on too! I guess he will support the blockade of TimberWest who are ruining, not only an important carbon sink, but the Beaufort Range watershed in Nanaimo-Alberni.

"We need a strategy now for the next 50 years, with short and medium-term targets to guide us. Governments must set clear markers along the way to unleash competitive market forces and allow the discovery of a long-term value for carbon emission reductions.

"Only then will we secure the deep reductions needed to prevent human interference with the climate system."

If you don't know your Canadian banking history you don't deserve to have an opinion about who to vote for. Any of your arguments are weak because you don't know how we got to this unsustainable debt reality. Learn what is going on in your country's monetary policy and then vote accordingly. Canada needs your help NOW!



Try another tactic, the women voters of Canada and the First Nations are not so naive,
Jen Fisher-Bradley Canadian Action Party candidate in Nanaimo-Alberni
www.canadianactionparty.ca Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform www.comer.org
CEO's throw weight behind Kyoto, seek longer-term effort
Dennis Bueckert, Canadian Press
Published: Thursday, November 17, 2005
OTTAWA (CP) - In a seismic shift for the business community, some of Canada's most influential corporate leaders have issued a call for stronger action to fight climate change beyond the Kyoto protocol.
In a letter to Prime Minister Paul Martin obtained by The Canadian Press, the heads of such companies as Alcan, Shell Canada, Bombardier, Power Corp. and Business Depot, come out solidly in support of the controversial climate treaty.

And they urge that Canada's climate-change plan extend beyond the 2008-2012 time frame of the Kyoto protocol.

"As corporate leaders representing a broad cross-section of the Canadian economy, we believe that all governments, corporations, consumers and citizens have responsibilities under the Kyoto Protocol," says the letter.

"The world must act urgently to stabilize the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere and minimize the global impacts of climate change."

The corporate leaders say a strong response is required to the strengthening evidence in the scientific assessments of the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

"We accept the IPCC consensus that climate change raises the risk of severe consequences for human health and security and the environment. We note that Canada is particularly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change."

The comments could hardly signal a sharper contrast to the criticism and skepticism that have characterized business comment on the Kyoto treaty from the time that former prime minister Jean Chretien first announced Canadian ratification in 1997.

At the time, Thomas d'Aquino, president of the Business Council on National Issues, described Chretien's commitment as "unrealistic and void of any meaningful economic impact analysis."

Similar comments have continued to flow from many business groups, the Alberta government and the Conservative party, which continues to oppose the treaty.

In their letter to Martin, the CEOs say their companies are already working to reduce greenhouse emissions and to minimize the adverse impact of climate change, but need policy certainty to guide action for post-2012.

"We need a strategy now for the next 50 years, with short and medium-term targets to guide us. Governments must set clear markers along the way to unleash competitive market forces and allow the discovery of a long-term value for carbon emission reductions.

"Only then will we secure the deep reductions needed to prevent human interference with the climate system."

The letter is signed by the following CEOs: Travis Engen, Alcan; Bob Elton, BC Hydro; Laurent Beaudoin, Bombardier; Russel Horner, Catalyst Paper; Alban D'Amours, Desjardins Group; Doug Muzyka, E.I. Dupont Canada; Derek Pannell, Falconbridge; John R. Wells, Interface Americas; Brian Foody, Iogen; Jack Cogen, Natsource Asset Management; Andre Desmarais, Power Corp.; Clive Mather, Shell Canada; Frank Dottori, Tembec; George Cooke, Dominion of Canada General Insurance; Greg Hanson, Wawanesa Mutual Insurance.

It is also signed by: John Murray, president, CH2M HILL; Annette Verschuren, president, Home Depot Canada; and David Wilmot, chair, Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction.

© The Canadian Press 2005




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From: NDP Women's caucus
To:  valjean@shaw.ca
Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 4:29 PM
Subject: How many more will join us?


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If you ask the four of us, a woman’s place is in Parliament.

We’re looking forward to more women joining us in the NDP Woman’s Caucus in the House of Commons. Canada's NDP has more women running as candidates in this election than any other party. In fact, more woman are running for the NDP in this election than have ever run for any Canadian party. That is something to be proud of.

NDP 108 women of 308 candidates = 35%
Liberals 79 women of 308 candidates = 26%
Conservatives 36 women of 308 candidates = 12%
Bloc Québécois 22 women of 75 candidates = 29%

You can help us get more woman elected to Parliament right now, by making an online donation to the NDP Agnes Macphail Fund. The “Aggie” fund helps to support all of our women candidates.

Your donation will help pay some of the special costs of our women candidates. It could be used for childcare, for transportation costs... each candidate will decide how to best use it in their situation.

NDP women in Parliament get results. Last year, the four of us pushed for pay equity. We helped craft the NDP Budget that put $4.6 billion into new social and environmental programs for Canadians, programs like social and co-operative housing. We got Parliament to unanimously adopt our motion pressing Paul Martin to deliver on Foreign Aid.

Imagine what we could do with a larger NDP Women's Caucus in the House of Commons.

Please help us elect more women this time than we have ever done before. Click here to donate to the Agnes Macphail fund.

Pass this message along to your list of friends who would enjoy participating in helping women candidates to get elected in this campaign.

Jean, Libby, Alexa and Judy

NDP Women’s Caucus

Jean Crowder - Nanaimo-Cowichan
Libby Davies - Vancouver East
Alexa McDonough - Halifax
Judy Wasylycia-Leis - Winnipeg North

How many more will join us after January 23rd?



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