The Issues

The Issues

Ask your candidates to support these policies & actions:

1. Cancel the Canadian Commercial Corporation’s multi-billion-dollar light-armoured vehicle contract with Saudi Arabia. Canada shouldn’t be arming one of the most repressive nations on earth, which is responsible for incredible suffering in Yemen.

2. Strengthen regulations on arms exports to bring Canadian legislation into full compliance with the Arms Trade Treaty.

3. Enforce the Charter of Rights by intervening in court challenges to Bill 21

4. Aggressively support a WTO patent waiver for COVID-19 vaccines.

5. Sign the United Nations Nuclear Ban Treaty. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) entered into force in January and 97 countries have already signed on to this effort to criminalize nuclear weapons.

6. Restart diplomatic relations with Iran severed by the Stephen Harper government by reopening the embassy.

7. End generalized economic sanctions in Iran, Yemen, Syria, Palestine

8. Retract Canadian opposition to the International Criminal Court’s investigation of Israeli war crimes.

9. Apply the Foreign Enlistment Act to groups recruiting for the Israeli military in Canada.

10. Ask the Canada Revenue Agency to investigate registered charities violating its rules by supporting the Israeli military, racist organizations and West Bank settlements.

11. Call for an end to the exemption for militaries’ greenhouse gas emissions in the upcoming COP26 climate negotiations. Stop exempting the Department of National Defence from government GHG reduction targets.

12. Scrap the plan to spend up to $5 billion on armed drones.

13. Place a moratorium on purchasing new fighter jets. The $19 billion—$77 billion over their lifecycle—set aside for the planned purchase should be redesignated towards a just transition away from fossil fuels.

14. Cancel the drone contract with Israeli weapons company Elbit Systems

15. Withdraw troops immediately from Iraq

16. The recent report from the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse and Addiction (CCSA) on excessive alcohol consumption in Canada clearly states that alcohol consumption is a leading public health issue, costing our society billions of dollars annually and causing significant health and social harms.

Sources

1. https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/a-modest-proposal-for-reimagining-canadian-foreign-policy

2. https://peaceandjusticenetwork.ca/2021election/

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