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Stop Harper! Take Back Canada Day Rally

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Created on Friday, 29 June 2012 17:07
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Stop Harper! Take Back Canada Day
We have many reasons to be proud of Canada and of being Canadian on this national holiday. But, increasingly, we have many reasons to worry about the direction in which our country is being taken.
 
The Harper government is enacting policies that help multinational corporation, but harm average Canadians and the natural environment of our great country. The Harper government is regularly censured in the media and by international watch-dogs for its undemocratic policies and the withering state of freedom in this country.

The time has come for Canadians to stand up, stand together, and take their country back. Harper’s Canada is not our Canada. Together we can put our country back on the right path—the path of freedom, equality, and justice.
 
Rally at Library Square, July 1 at 1:30pm


Speakers Include:
  • Sean Vuillez: Pirate Party
  • Peter Prontzos
  • Terry Engleer: Labour
  • Stephen Collis: Occupy
  • Sasha Wiley Shaw: Labour/Occupy
  • Suresh Fernando: Occupy
  • Cecilia Point: Musqueam
  • Libby Davies: MP Vancouver East

In the past year we have seen the Harper government take Canada through a hard right turn, making fundamental changes to the country that reach beyond his mandate and beyond anything indicated in his last election campaign. Many Canadian’s are concerned by:

•       The May 2011 “robocall” election scandal, in which thousands of Canadian voters received misinformation intended to frustrate their attempts to vote.
•       The F-35 fighter jet scandal, in which the public was misinformed as to the true costs of the Harper government’s plan to but new, astonishingly expensive fighter jets.
•       The Harper government’s open antipathy towards the environmental movement, and the government’s open championing of pipeline developments that have yet to pass through the independent review process.
•       Aggressive crime and surveillance legislation (Bills c-10 and c-30).
•       The omnibus bill c-38, which disassembles much of Canada’s environmental protection legislation, makes worker’s lives harder, and embeds over 70 changes to Canadian laws, each of which deserves independent debate in the House of Commons.



 
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