Colony or Country: The Future of Canada-U.S. Relations

COLONY OR COUNTRY? THE FUTURE OF CANADA-U.S. RELATIONS

As part of the campaign against the so-called "deep integration" (more on that name below), the Council of Canadians embarked on a seven-city tour titled Colony or Country: The Future of Canada-U.S. Relations. The tour kicked off in Vancouver on March 8 and stopped in Edmonton, Saskatoon, Fredericton, Halifax, Montréal, and ended in Toronto on March 30, 2004.

In each of these cities, plus Winnipeg, a strategy session was held during the day with community activists, leaders and representatives of various organisations to share information about this issue and gauge interest in a concerted effort to fight it.

The tour and strategy sessions have been highly successful and demonstrated a clear concerns from most participants on the impacts of deep integration as pushed forward by the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and the C.D. Howe Institute.

The structure of the strategy sessions was loosely the same in all eight venues: presentation of the issue and its relevance to today’s struggles, roundtable introductions, evening speakers giving a short summary of their speech to provide some food for thoughts, roundtable on the issue answering four main questions:

How is Deep Integration affecting your organisation or constituency?
How can this issue fit into your political/communication strategy?
How can we network effectively?
Where do we go from here?

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