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August 19, 2010
Americas Social Forum (ASF)
Asuncion, Paraguay Aug 11 - 15
The most recent Americas Social Forum (ASF) took place in Asuncion, Paraguay August 11-15, 2010. Compared to some of the more massive (and chaotic) Social Forums of the previous decade, this version was a more intimate gathering of many of the key social forces from around our hemisphere. This event took place against a backdrop of uncertainty facing Paraguay and its social democratic President Fernando Lugo. Some feel that Paraguay may be next in line for a Honduras-style coup to return power to the oligarchy, a situation which may have been compounded by Lugo's recent diagnosis of lymphoma cancer. However Lugo got out of his hospital bed in Sao Paulo on August 14 and flew back to Asuncion in time to give a stirring speech that same afternoon to Social Forum participants that had packed a downtown gymnasium to hear him. This Social Forum also featured a colourful 8 kilometer march from one side of the capital city to city hall on the other, as well as dozens of self-generated workshops held mostly in tents set up for the purpose.
- Download a short report from the ASF in Paraguay with photos (PDF - 6.9MB)
July 15, 2010
Colombian Action Network on Free Trade
Free Trade Agreement with Canada
is Bad News for Colombia
Contrary to the euphoria displayed by the government of Uribe Velez over the ratification of the FTA with Canada, a glee that was also parroted by Colombian media outlets owned by foreign multinationals, this Treaty is bad news for the people of Colombia.
It is not true, as the Ministry of Commerce claims, that sales by Colombia to Canada will grow because of access to a large market. Exports to Canada don’t even represent 1% of the national total, and if we haven’t been exporting more it is not because of the lack of an FTA, but rather that the country just doesn’t produce what Canadians are interested in buying.
- Read the complete translation
July 1, 2010
Witnessing resistance in Honduras
Quixote Centre Honduras Delegation update July 1st, 2010
Caitlin Power Hancey, Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN)
This is the second report from Honduras by Caitlin Power Hancey, who was one of the Canadian delegates on a bi-national delegation.
The Honduran resistance movement is real—it is also strong, diverse, and decidedly non-violent.
This is the last day of our international accompaniment and observation delegation to Honduras. For the past week our delegation has been busy accompanying a range of events leading up to the anniversary of the coup on June 28th, or “the anniversary active of popular resistance in Honduras.” We also continued meetings with representatives from various sectors active in the resistance movement—including women’s rights organizations, LGBTI coalitions, youth groups, academics, teacher’s unions, and peace-building organizations.
June 24, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Bi-national Delegation to Conduct Human Rights Accompaniment and
Observation in Lead-Up to the 1-year Anniversary of the Coup d’État in
Honduras
Common Frontiers has been working with other organizations in Canada, Honduras and the USA to have delegates from Canada on a bi-national delegation that is in Honduras until the end of June. In addition there will be a Canadian lawyer sitting on the alternative People's Truth Commission that will be inaugurated on June 28 at a ceremony in Tegucigalpa, the capital city of Honduras.
UPDATE - JUNE 25 - The first report from the observers was filed today by Caitlin Power Hancey.
"Today was the second day of our international human rights accompaniment and observation delegation in Honduras. Initial meetings were held yesterday with representatives from the International Committee of the National Popular Resistance Front (FNRP), the leadership of the FNRP, and Honduran Platform for Human Rights. They gave a general overview of the events leading up to the coup on June 28 of last year, the human rights situation in Honduras since the coup, and their continued work to reconstruct democracy in Honduras under increasing repression. This violent repression has continued under the government Porfirio Lobo, who was named president following a campaign and election process held under the auspices of the de facto coup government in the last half of 2009."
- Go to the Daily Reports page to read her report
- Read the Media Release
- Download a PDF version of the release (132kb)
April 29, 2010
World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth
PEOPLES AGREEMENT
Today, our Mother Earth is wounded and the future of humanity is in danger.
If global warming increases by more than 2 degrees Celsius, a situation that the “Copenhagen Accord” could lead to, there is a 50% probability that the damages caused to our Mother Earth will be completely irreversible. Between 20% and 30% of species would be in danger of disappearing. Large extensions of forest would be affected, droughts and floods would affect different regions of the planet, deserts would expand, and the melting of the polar ice caps and the glaciers in the Andes and Himalayas would worsen. Many island states would disappear, and Africa would suffer an increase in temperature of more than 3 degrees Celsius. Likewise, the production of food would diminish in the world, causing catastrophic impact on the survival of inhabitants from vast regions in the planet, and the number of people in the world suffering from hunger would increase dramatically, a figure that already exceeds 1.02 billion people.The corporations and governments of the so-called “developed” countries, in complicity with a segment of the scientific community, have led us to discuss climate change as a problem limited to the rise in temperature without questioning the cause, which is the capitalist system.
- Read the full text of the People's Agreement from Cochabamba, Bolivia
April 21, 2010
For Immediate Release
Canadian Fact-finding Delegation Discovers Mexican Community Devastated by Blackfire Mining Activities
OTTAWA, 21 April 2010 - A Canadian delegation that visited Chiapas, Mexico following the murder of social activist Mariano Abarca and the involvement of several employees of the Calgary-based mining company Blackfire Exploration has concluded that Blackfire should leave Chiapas, and the Canadian Parliament needs to act now to prevent further international mining conflicts from turning deadly.
Blackfire's barite mining operation near the town of Chicomuselo in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas was closed by state environmental authorities on December 7, 2009. Mariano Abarca Roblero was shot dead in front of his house on November 27, 2009.
"What we found during our investigation was a community devastated by the ever-present intimidation, violence, bad mining practices, environmental destruction, and legal harassment - and the bloody murder of Mariano Abarca, who spoke up against this destruction," said Rick Arnold, of Common Frontiers.
- Read full text of Media Release
Additional Documents
- Chiapas Delegation Report Executive Summary
- Chiapas Delegation - Full Report
- Scan of Memorandum of Understanding between Grecia Ejido & Blackfire
Exploration
- Scan of Lease Agreement between Grecia Ejido & Blackfire Exploration
- Scan of SEMAVI Report on Closure of Payback Mine
April 16, 2010
The world comes to Cochabamba..
Common Frontiers and its member groups will be sending 13 delegates to Bolivia for the World Climate Change Conference, which runs April 20-22. Below is a clip from the most recent note sent out by organizers:
When President Morales of Bolivia launched his invitation to the world to come to Bolivia to develop a Peoples’ Agenda for Climate Change, we never imagined the overwhelming response it would generate. With less than a week to go before the conference, here are some of the astonishing statistics related to the conference:
- At least 15,000 people are expected to attend from 126 countries
- Around 70 governments are expected to attend to listen to the voices of civil society, including Presidents of Ecuador, Paraguay, Nicaragua, Venezuela, the Vice-President of Comoros Islands, government ministers, delegates and parliamentarians from Europe, Asia and Africa.
- International organisations include UNICEF, FAO, UNESCO, UNFPA, WTO, OICA, OPS, FIDA
- 180 self-organized events have been registered by different networks on every aspect of climate change policy
- More than 50 scientists, social movement leaders, researchers, academics and artists have agreed to speak on 14 panels
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More than 300 press have registered.
It is clear that the conference and its objective of putting forward a just and effective response to climate change have touched a chord worldwide. It shows more than ever, after the failure of Copenhagen, that the hope that we can address the climate crisis lies with the people of the world.
Watch for updates from those attending.
For Immediate Release
Mar 10, 2010
Groups File Documentation with RCMP on Canadian Mining Company’s Involvement in Mexican Corruption Case
(Ottawa and Toronto) A coalition of Canadian non-governmental groups today filed a memo with the RCMP asking it to investigate Calgary-based Blackfire Exploration Ltd. and its Mexican subsidiary under the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act. Blackfire had submitted documentation of its payments to the mayor of Chicomuselo in the state of Chiapas, Mexico to the state Congress in June, 2009. These documents are now in the hands of the RCMP. Bribing a foreign public official is illegal under the rarely-used Act, one of the few Canadian laws that applies internationally. Under this Act any person found guilty could face up to five years in jail.
“There are really no other legal controls on the activities of Canadian companies operating internationally,” said MiningWatch Canada spokesperson Jamie Kneen. “We’re especially interested to see if anything can be done in this particular case because it’s so appalling.” Rick Arnold, coordinator of Common Frontiers, added, “The company’s own documents show that it paid off the local Mayor and another municipal authority. We need to know – and the Mexicans deserve to know – that something can be done about this.”
- Read the entire media release en español en français
Press Release
For Immeditate Release
Feb 22, 2010
Blackfire adding threats to injury in Mexico
Canadian mining firm looks to pocket $800 million via NAFTA Ch. 11
OTTAWA and TORONTO--A coalition of Canadian organizations is condemning the use of NAFTA by Blackfire Explorations to extract 800 million dollars from the impoverished Mexican state of Chiapas. The Calgary-based mining company is embroiled in accusations of corruption of Mexican public officials and the murder of a prominent environmental activist in the Mexican State of Chiapas. Now, according to a recent report in the Mexican press, Blackfire is also threatening to sue the government of Chiapas for $800 million in compensation under NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) Chapter 11 for the closure of its barite mine in December 2009.
In response to this development, Rick Arnold of Common Frontiers states, "You’d think that Blackfire, mired as it is in controversy, would seek to mend fences with the affected communities in Chiapas by offering compensation. Instead the company is proceeding to bully Mexican public authorities by threatening a mega-million dollar NAFTA Ch. 11 action that the country could ill afford to pay".
- Read the entire media release en español
- See story below for related documents
Feb 19, 2010
Blackfire To Sue the Government of Chiapas
The Cynicism of Canadian Mining Companies
Chiapas, Mexico -- Under Chapter 11 of the North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Canadian mining company Blackfire Exploration, linked to the death of opposition leader Mariano Abarca Roblero, intends to sue the government of Chiapas for almost $800 million, to repair the damage and injury caused by the closure last December 2009 of the barite mine in Grecia ejido in the municipality of Chicomuselo. The Canadian mining company has significant interests in the state and plans to create the infrastructure in the Port of Chiapas that would allow it to market the wealth they extract from the state to the Asian market, in this case supposedly the largest titanium mine in North America...
-Read the Entire Letter, from the Mexican Network of People Affected by Mining (REMA)
-Read translation of original Milenio Online article
Jan 25, 2010
Open Letter
To the governments and organizations gathered in Montreal on the situation in Haiti
The recent tragedy in Haiti shocked the people of the world for its destructive impact, the environmental and social consequences, and especially for the loss of human lives. Unfortunately, natural disasters are not new in that Caribbean country, which was impacted in 2008 by hurricanes Hanna and Ike.
Nor is it the first time we have watched the international community make pledges of cooperation and assistance to Haiti. We are concerned, as organizations and social movements and on the basis of permanent contact and consultation with our partners there, that the international response be coordinated on the basis of respect for their sovereignty and in full accordance with the needs and demands of the Haitian people.
-Read the Entire Letter, signed by dozens of organizations
December 18, 2009
MEDIA RELEASE
Documents Show Corruption and Intimidation by Canadian Mining Firm Blackfire in Its Mexican operations:
Ottawa Must Investigate Immediately
Harper government must adopt legislation to punish corrupt practices by Canadian-based mining corporations
JOINT RELEASE ISSUED BY:
Common Frontiers-Canada
Council of Canadians
MiningWatch Canada
United Steelworkers
-Read the Media Release (PDF versions) in English en español en français
- See anti-Blackfire demo photos in our Gallery
Nov 25 - Dec 2, 2009
Honduras Human Rights Observers Daily Reports
A bi-national delegation of Canadian and US representatives from labour, human rights, and faith-based organizations is in Honduras from Nov 25 to Dec 2 to conduct human rights accompaniment and observation at the time of the country's controversial elections on November 29. The delegation's members hope that their presence will mitigate human rights violations by the Honduran military and police, and that they will be able to document any violations that occur. The team is posting regular reports back to Canada. Follow the link below to read their on-the-ground updates.
- Read the Daily Reports from Honduras
- Read the Dec 3 Media Release
- See recent pictures in our Gallery
- Jan 6 - Read the final delegates report (PDF 245KB)
UPDATE - NOV 29
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Canadian Human Rights Observers in Honduras witness violence and intimidation during the controversial Nov. 29 elections
-Read the Nov 29 Media Release
-Download as a PDF
November 26, 2009
Opinion
Message to Ottawa: Nov. 29 Honduran ‘Elections’ are a Threat to Democracy in the Hemisphere
By Rick Arnold, Common Frontiers Canada
Will Canada be recognizing these elections? All signs indicate that the Harper government will try and get away with arguing that it was a free and fair exercise of the will of the people, and that it is the only route open to restoring peace and stability. If Canada recognizes these elections it will not only be turning its back on the long suffering people of Honduras who are now well organized and will continue to resist after November 29, but will also be distancing itself from most other countries in our hemisphere.
November 25, 2009
For Immediate Release
Delegation to Conduct Human Rights Accompaniment and Observation in Lead-Up to Controversial Honduras Elections
Representatives of Canadian Labour and Human Rights Groups available for Interviews from Honduras, November 25 – December 1st
Toronto/Vancouver & Hyattsville, MD – A bi-national delegation of Canadian and US representatives from labour, human rights, and faith-based organizations will be in Honduras from November 25 to December 2, 2009, to conduct human rights accompaniment and observation at the time of the country’s controversial elections on November 29. The bi-national delegation has been co-organized along with the Quixote Centre in the U.S. (that has organized 7 previous delegations since the June 28 military-backed coup). The delegation’s members hope that their presence will mitigate human rights violations by the Honduran military and police, and that they will be able to document any violations that occur.
November 10, 2009
National Work Stoppage in Mexico
A national work stoppage has been called for Nov. 11 in Mexico in support of the Electrical Workers (SME) and against the recent militarization of Luz y Fuerza electrical instalations in Mexico City. Canadian Energy unions, Common Frontiers and RQIC have sent a letter to the President of Mexico. We expect that a portion of this letter will be read out in the Mexico City Zocalo on Nov 11. Below is an excerpt and links to the full letter:
President Felipe de Jesús Calderón Hinojosa,
Last Friday, Nov 6, 2009, we met in Montreal , to follow up on the agreements we made with trade unions and social organizations from Mexico and the United States during the Third North American Encounter of Organizations from the Energy Sector held in Mexico City from the 16th to the 18th of March, 2009. We trade unions and social networks involved in energy in Quebec and Canada affirm the following with respect to recent events in Mexico:
1. We condemn the actions of your government on October 10th and 11th when you ordered the takeover by force through the intervention of federal police of the installations of the Central Light and Power Company (Luz y Fuerza del Centro), in order to later issue a decree announcing the liquidation of that company which is protected by the Constitution and without the necessary Congressional authorization.
-Link to PDF versions of full letter in English en español en français
November 3, 2009
Harper's Colombia cover-up
How the PM betrayed his own MPs to sign trade deal with unionist-murdering regime
The latest issue of Toronto's Now Magazine features an article by Andrew Cash, the NDP candidate for the federal riding of Davenport. In it, he talks to many different people about the federal government's actions in proposing and signing a trade deal with Colombia. One of those quoted is CF's Rick Arnold:
Colombia, says, Rick Arnold of Common Frontiers, an umbrella of civil society orgs, has one of the worst human rights records in the Western hemisphere. There’s plenty of evidence that paramilitary organizations with ties to President Alvaro Uribe’s government have instituted a reign of terror over Afro-Colombian and indigenous groups in rural areas as well as unionists.
According to recent human rights reports, 474 of the latter have been murdered since Uribe came to power in 2002, over 40 of them in the first eight months of 2008.
“While the killing of unionists is well documented, others point to the fact that so many more indigenous people have been murdered,” says Arnold.
Any investigation would probably show, he says, “that lands of interest to foreign resource companies are being cleared of the indigenous population. There’s a total of 4 million displaced people in the country [of 45 million] already.”
- Read the article on NowToronto.com
- Read a reprint on the CF site
PHOTO BY: RAUL ARBOLEDA/ GETTY IMAGES
October 30, 2009
Free Event -- Afta NAFTA: Competing visions for North America
Monday November 2, 2009, 7:00 pm
Trinity St Paul's United Church
427 Bloor Street West, Toronto
SPEAKERS
Manuel Perez Rocha, director of The NAFTA Plus and the SPP Advocacy Project
at the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Policy Studies, and executive committee
member of the Mexican Action Network on Free Trade (RMALC).
Katherine Ozer, executive director of the National Family Farm Coalition who also
sits on the boards of the Citizens Trade Campaign, Community Food Security Coalition
and the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture.
John Foster, co-founder of Common Frontiers, Research Associate with the North-
South Institute, and former head of OXFAM-Canada (1989-1997).
Moderated by Stuart Trew, Trade Campaigner, The Council of Canadians
October 14, 2009
Common Frontiers letter to Mexican President Felipe Calderón
Dear President Calderón,
I write to protest the Federal Police occupation of the electrical plants, the liquidation of the Light and Power Company (LyF), the firing of 45,000 workers, and the attempt to destroy the Mexican Electrical Workers Union (SME).
- Read the letter from CF to President Calderón
October 7, 2009
Scott Brison's comments on Colombia "beyond the pale" - letter from CF
Dear Mr. Brison:
"Your comments in the House of Commons this week related to Bill C-23, the proposed Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement, went well beyond the pale of reasoned argument. In fact I and anyone I have talked with who has heard about your comments are outraged by the falsehoods that they contained."
- Read the letter from CF to Scott Brison
- More on this issue from the Political Decoder blog
October 02, 2009
Letter to Minister Peter Kent re:
Canadian policy on Honduras
Following OAS talks on September 28th, Reuters reported that Canada and four other OAS members sought to drop President Zelaya's return to office as a precondition for holding future elections in Honduras. If that media report is correct, it puts Canada clearly and shamefully on side with the plans of a de facto regime that forcefully and illegally ousted the democratically elected President of Honduras on June 28, 2009.
- Read the letter to Peter Kent from CF
September 22, 2009
Letter to the Prime Minister:
Honduras situation critical: Canada needs to step up and support the return of Manuel Zelaya to the Presidency of Honduras
Yesterday Honduran President Manuel Zelaya returned to Tegucigalpa where he is currently a guest of the Brazilian Embassy. Zelaya has again called for negotiations with the de facto regime as a first step towards the peaceful resolution of the crisis brought on by June 28 military-backed coup.
- Read the letter to the Prime Minister from CF
For Immediate Release
September 17, 2009
Colombia is exporting paramilitaries to Honduras, and has become a security threat in the Americas.
The Canadian government made another attempt during the week of September 14 to pass the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (CCFTA) through second reading in Parliament. Conservative MPs rose one after another over a period of three days to praise the Uribe regime while trotting out the usual arguments in favour of 'free trade' with Colombia - the magic bullet to solve all poverty and human rights problems. However, the Harper government free traders likely didn't have in mind Colombia's newly found vocation of 'exporting' paramilitaries to serve as mercenaries in other counties like embattled Honduras.
Colombian media is reporting that illegal armed groups in that country are recruiting demobilized paramilitaries to work as mercenaries in Honduras, and that recruitment has taken place on lands belonging to the Colombian government. - Read some of those media reports
As a selling point for going ahead with the CCFTA, some Liberal and Conservative MPs claimed this week that a free trade deal between Canada and Colombia would also provide a measure of 'security' by serving to counter the intentions of neighbours such as Venezuela's Chavez. These MPs failed to mention that Colombia has the largest standing army in South America, and with the recent agreement with the United States for the use of seven military bases, it is Colombia that has become the destabilizing factor in South America.
On the 15 of September at a meeting in Quito, Ecuador, the South American Council of Defence of the union of South American nations, known as UNASUR, asked Colombia for an explanation regarding the new US military bases. Colombia refused saying that the agreement's terms were confidential. Brazil's Foreign Minister Celso Amorín summed up the feelings held by most UNASUR countries at the Quito meeting, "Colombia hasn't understood the unease that it has caused because of this agreement on military bases".
It would appear that the Harper government hasn't understood that in proceeding with a free trade agreement with Colombia, Canada is not only turning a blind eye to massive human rights abuses in that country, but would also be complicit in aiding and abetting a pariah state bent on intimidating all its neighbours in South America.
- Download the Press Release (PDF)
September 11, 2009
People’s Voices:
Challenging the G-20’s Agenda of Corporate Globalization
Wednesday, Sept. 23 and Friday, Sept. 25 - Pittsburg, USA
The G-20 is almost here, and there are some incredible events that the are being organized in partnership with many local, national and international allies. Common Frontiers will be present for the three days of events in Pittsburg as the Canadian member of the Hemispheric Social Alliance (HSA). The HSA and its US representative, the Alliance for Responsible Trade (ART), are key members of the organizing committee responsible for putting on several grass roots/high profile events in parallel to the official G-20 gathering in Pittsburg, such as:
- discussion circles leading to a peoples tribunal;
- a panel with leaders from Latin America;
- an exchange with G-20 representatives from the Global South and;
- speakers including Joseph Stiglitz, Leo Gerard and many others.
- Link to People's Voices Website
- Click here to download and view the program flyer (PDF)
August 6, 2009
Leaders Summit in Guadalajara must tackle the NAFTA link to swine flu
Only a few days before the next “three amigos” Summit in Guadalajara, Mexico, and information has only been released drop by drop. There is not any official information yet about its agenda. This contrasts starkly with promises made by Obama during his campaign of greater transparency and involvement of civil society and labor in such summits:
- Read the entire article by Rick Arnold and Manuel Pérez Rocha
August 6, 2009
An Open Letter To Harper
Re: North American Leaders Summit
On behalf of Canadian civil society organizations we urge you to take North American relations in a new direction when you meet Presidents Barack Obama and Felipe Calderon on August 9 and 10 in Guadalajara, Mexico. While this meeting is no longer described as a continuation of the Security and Prosperity Partnership initiated by President George W. Bush, President Vicente Fox and Prime Minister Paul Martin, we have yet to see any evidence concerning how it will differ from the secretive SPP process.
July 18, 2009
Fact-finding delegation to Honduras
Listed below are some links to photos and videos from Ben Beachy, a member of Witness for Peace, who was part of the first fact-finding Hemispheric Social Alliance delegation that was in Honduras from July 12 to 17.
A second HSA mission to which CF members and other delegates from Canada and Quebec have been invited, is scheduled to be heading to Honduras the week of July 27.
The photos can be found here (click on "Show Info")
Various videos:
Anuncio de COFADEH de 1,161 violaciones a los derechos humanos:
Hondurenos cantando el himno nacional a la embajada gringa:
Posicion de Carlos H Reyes, candidato presidencial, sobre el papel de los EE.UU.:
Conferencia de prensa del Frente Nacional en medio de la calle 1:
Conferencia de prensa del Frente Nacional en medio de la calle 2:
Expresion de solidaridad de Enrique en representacion del ASC:
July 7, 2009
CF to PM: Canada must support calls for reinstatement of Honduras President
Dear Prime Minister Harper;
Canada stands virtually alone among the countries that make up this hemisphere in refusing to call for the immediate and unconditional reinstatement of Manuel Zelaya as president of Honduras. In 2007, when your government announced its new policy focus on the Americas, it promised to promote Canadian values such as human rights, democracy, prosperity and security for all. The recent coup in Honduras has shattered these values by putting the population there at risk, by gutting democracy, and by denying the majority of the population their hopes and dreams for leaving behind a history of poverty and neglect that were raised as a result of the modest reforms instituted under President Zelaya.
- Read the entire letter (PDF)
July 2, 2009
Civil Society groups question Senate's haste in passing Canada-Peru Free Trade Agreement
Dear Senators Le Breton and Cowan:
On June 11, shortly after the killings that took place in the Amazon area of Peru, our three civil society organizations wrote to you urging the Senate to halt Bill C-24, implementing legislation for the Canada - Peru Free Trade Agreement. We had every reason to expect that the Senate, often referred to as Canada’s court of sober second thought, would have taken the time to investigate the reasons for the Indigenous protest in Peru that was dealt with harshly by authorities. The resulting deaths of protesters and police led to a serious political crisis in Peru including the resignation of the prime minister, the sudden revoking of controversial Amazonian development laws, and a nationally broadcast apology from the president.
However, with unseemly haste, the Standing Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade issued a press release on June 17 announcing that the Senate had passed Bill C-24, which then received royal assent on June 19. With so much reason to delay ratifying the Canada-Peru FTA, we are left wondering what went wrong at the Senate.
- Read the entire letter (PDF)
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