Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow has tweeted her vision for 2017:
1- We protect Canada’s water and start with re-instating the water laws gutted by the Harper government.
2- We stop building pipelines and start to move away from our dependence on extreme energy, tar sands oil and fracking.
3- We tax corporations at the pre-Harper level and go after offshore tax havens. This would free up badly-needed billions.
4- We stop equating corporate-dominated trade agreements with “openness to the world” and negotiate trade that serves the people.
5- We create a national pharmacare program (remembering that CETA and TPP would prevent this crucial next step in health for all).
6- We continue to build alliances with organized labour and support workers against globalization and unjust practices everywhere.
7- We recognize, honour and defend the leadership shown by First Nations in the fight for environmental and social justice.
8- We promise to protect the public trust and not allow public assets such as water services to be sold to the private sector.
9- We bring the rule of law to Canadian mining companies behaving terribly in some countries of the global South.
10- We remember in all our foreign policy that peace can only come if accompanied by justice. May we serve that goal always.
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