Yesterday, Council of Canadians activist Meera Karunananthan was on RDI (Radio-Canada French-language television) discussing the Canada-European Union Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, the privatization of water services, and our new joint report with CUPE on this issue. To see the 6-minute interview, please go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhgaP3a4CqU or watch here:
The report – Public Water for Sale: How Canada will privatize our public water systems – was also recently noted on the website of the prestigious French news magazine Le Monde diplomatique. The web-link for this is http://blog.mondediplo.net/2010-12-21-L-Union-europeenne-menace-la-gestion-publique-de. Le Monde diplomatique has a web-based readership of about 2.4 million readers worldwide.
The 30-page report is posted at http://canadians.org/trade/documents/CETA/water-report-1210.pdf.
The Council of Canadians will be intervening in the sixth round of CETA talks in both Brussels and Strasbourg the week of January 17-21. More on that soon. The seventh round of talks – the last scheduled round at this point – will take place in Ottawa on April 11-15. More on our CETA campaign at http://canadians.org/ceta.
