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<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt;">Say bye to buy local: <span
style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"></span></span></b></p>
<p style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b><span
style="font-size: 14pt;">How secret <span>trade</span> deals threaten
our local economies,
jobs and the environment and weaken your community</span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We’d
like to invite you to join an important public discussion on new
Canadian <span>trade</span>
agreements and the impact they will have on local economies and local
communities.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We
are currently suffering multiple crises – an economic crisis that
threatens our
jobs and livelihoods, an environmental crisis that threatens our
habitat, and
an energy crisis that demands we move away from fossil fuels and a
reliance on
long-distance <span>trade</span>. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In
times like this we need our local, provincial and federal governments
to be
innovative and responsive to the communities they represent, as well as
the
international community we are all part of. We need them to recognize,
like so
many people already do, that many of the solutions to all these crises
are
going to be local solutions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Unfortunately,
the Ontario government is busy signing and endorsing interprovincial
and
international agreements that will restrict what provinces and
municipalities
can do to protect the environment, save existing jobs and create new
ones, strengthen
public services and support local economies. These agreements say that
local
solutions are “barriers” to <span>trade</span> and investment and must
therefore be
eliminated. <br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
purpose of this tour is to talk about three specific <span>trade</span>
agreements that will
have significant impacts on Ontario communities: </span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><span>1.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The
Ontario–Quebec <span>Trade</span> and Cooperation Agreement that
Premiers McGuinty and
Charest negotiated in secret and signed</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);"> </span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">on
September 11, 2009</span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;"><span>2.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">The
Canada–European Union Comprehensive Economic and <span>Trade</span>
Agreement, negotiations
for which start in Ottawa, October 19</span></b></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span>3.<span
style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 7pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;">
</span></span></span></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black;">A
proposed Canada–U.S. bilateral procurement</span></b><b><span
style="font-size: 12pt;"> agreement covering subnational <span
style="color: black;">governments
that could be announced any day</span></span></b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
impact of these internal and international agreements will be broad and
often incompatible
with social goods, such as stimulating local economies, maintaining a
universal
and publicly funded health care system, and protecting the environment.
Ontarians have a right to discuss and debate these agreements, and to
have the
power to modify, expand or cancel them if they’re not in the province’s
interests.</span></p>
<p><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Kitchener
– October 19</span></b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br>
7-9
p.m. Lyle S. Hallman Faculty of Social Work Building 120 Duke Street
West,
Kitchener, ON</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Guest
speakers: Sid Ryan (CUPE), Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Contact:
<br>
(Kitchener-Waterloo) Shannon Balla, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:shannon.balla@gmail.com" target="_blank">shannon.balla@gmail.com</a>,
519-884-0710 x5232<br>
(Guelph)
David Sills, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:dsills@sympatico.ca" target="_blank">dsills@sympatico.ca</a>,
519-827-9138</span></p>
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