[Viva] Fwd: Tell Stephen Harper: Canada's communities are not for sale

[Denise Becker]

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From: Canadian Union of Public Employees <webmaster at cupe.ca>
Date: Mon, May 30, 2011 at 12:58 PM
Subject: Tell Stephen Harper: Canada's communities are not for sale
To: Denise Becker <dbecker106 at gmail.com>


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CUPE has launched an on-line campaign to stop the Canada- EU Comprehensive
Economic and Trade Agreement known as CETA. Canadians are being called on to
email Prime Minister Stephen Harper and ask him to immediately halt
negotiations on this deal.

*Add your voice to this campaign
today<http://cupe.ca/action/halt-ceta-negotiations>
*

CUPE National President Paul Moist and Council of Canadians National
Chairperson Maude Barlow have launched a cross-country tour to oppose the
proposed trade deal called the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
(CETA). They are calling on all Canadians to get informed and take action.

The tour and on-line action are taking place in the lead up to the critical
eighth round of CETA negotiations between Canada and the European Union in
Brussels this July. Harper said recently he is committed to proceeding
‘full-throttle’ on CETA and on having the deal signed by January 1, 2012,
just eight months from now.

If CETA is signed it will:

   - threaten our democracy by putting corporate rights first
   - encourage privatization of Canada’s drinking water and wastewater
   services
   - threaten local job creation and “buy-local” policies
   - cause prescription drug costs to skyrocket by at least $2.8 billion per
   year
   - allow big corporations to challenge environmental regulations

 Together we can stop this trade deal and protect communities, health care
and the environment. Join the thousands of Canadians who oppose this deal
and let Harper know you want the deal stopped.

   - Visit *cupe.ca/action/halt-ceta-negotiations* today

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