[e-drive] EQUIFLASH [ELECTION ALERT - 2006]

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ELECTION ALERT - 2006

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A single vote CAN make a difference.

 

The official party platforms have now been released. To see the federal parties' positions on arts and culture issues, click on the links below:

 

Liberal Party (see page 63): 

http://www.liberal.ca/images/dir/PDFs/platform_e.pdf

 

Conservative Party (see page 39):

http://www.conservative.ca/media/20060113-Platform.pdf

            

NDP - New Democratic Party of Canada (see page 32): 

http://www.ndp.ca/ndp-drupal/files/platform-en-final-web.pdf

Also see cultural platform announcement of January 12th: http://www.ndp.ca/page/3053

 

Bloc Québecois (see pages 55-59): 

http://www.bloc.org/archivage/plateforme_2005-2006.pdf

 

Green Party: http://www.greenparty.ca/our_stories.html

 

Does your party support the new federal funding for arts and culture announced on November 23, which included an increase to the budget of the Canada Council for the Arts of $306 million over the next three years? 

 

Will your party keep this promised funding if elected on January 23rd, 2006?

 

Equity's "Election Alert" pdf flyer can be found at EQUITYONLINE

http://www.caea.com/EquityWeb/NewsAndEvents/News/ElectionRelease2006.pdf

This guide contains a complete listing of the national parties' website links, leaders' email addresses and websites listing election information.

 

THINK national - ACT local

VOTE on January 23rd. Ridings and polling station information can be found on the Elections Canada website: http://www.electionscanada.ca <http://www.electionscanada.ca/> .

 

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