WHAT: The Picton book launch for Corporatizing Canada: Making Business Out of Public Service will include a discussion on how corporatization of water has transformed water management in Canada.
FEATURING: Emma Lui, Water Campaigner for the Council of Canadians and contributor to the book. Lui will discuss current water issues, how market-based principles are paving the way for Nestlé’s water takings and how Picton becoming a Blue Community would help to protect the human right to water.
WHEN: Wednesday, November 14 at 7:00 p.m.
WHERE: Picton Town Hall, 2 Ross St. in Picton (the old Firehall) (Map). Facebook Event
WHY: Corporatizing Canada critically examines how corporatization has been implemented in different ways across the Canadian public sector, from schools to hospitals and from utilities to food banks, and warns us of the threat that neoliberal corporatization poses to democratic decision-making and the public at large.
Copies of Corporatizing Canada can be purchased at these book tour events or online through the publisher.
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For more information or to arrange interviews:
Dylan Penner, Media Officer, Council of Canadians, 613-795-8685, dpenner@canadians.org. Twitter: @CouncilOfCDNs
