[sust-mar] Please share: 23 upcoming events, 5 petitions and info about the federal pre-budget consultations

[Tamara Lorincz]

Hello Sust-Mar!

Please find below a list of 23 upcoming events and 6 petitions & applications to sign and share widely.

Happy International Development Week Feb. 6-12: https://www.international.gc.ca/campaign-campagne/idw-sdi/index.aspx?lang=eng
*Militarism and military spending undermine development in our country and everywhere.

In honour of Black History Month, a FREE masterclass on Black History with Angela Davies, Cornell West, Nikoke Hannah-Jones, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw & others (this month only): https://learn.masterclass.com/blackhistorymonth

Federal Pre-Budget Consultations are now open and the deadline Feb. 25
It takes only 5 minutes to fill out the survey here:  https://www.letstalkbudget2022.ca/let-s-talk-budget-2022 Please consider telling the federal government that you do not want it to spending $19 billion for 88 new fossil-fuel powered fighter jets, $5 billion for armed drones & $77 billion for warships (doesn’t include life cycle costs).

Hope you can join US defense expert Dan Grazier, Bianca of the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and I on a webinar this Thursday about why Canada should not buy the F-35 (it’s one of the most consequential decisions that the Trudeau government will make and the second most expensive procurement in Canadian history): https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pSFkF8nHRImpZsk326W2hQ

Happy Lunar New Year – the Year of the Tiger.

In solidarity for peace, earth and justice,
Tamara

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WEBINAR: WOMEN’S LEADERSHIP IN THE PURSUIT OF PEACE AND SECURITY
February 7 @ 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm PT
Join BCCIC in kickstarting International Development Week 2022 on Monday, February 7 through our interactive roundtable discussion.
This virtual event will feature experts working around the world to uplift and advance women’s voices, leadership and priorities in moments of instability, conflict, extremism, and crisis.
Speakers: Jen Freeman
CEO of PeaceGeeks
Nazik Kabalo
Women, Peace & Security Network – Canada
Ellen Woodsworth
Member of Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom Canada
Charlotte Haynes
Senior Program Advisor, Justice Education Society
Organized by the BC Council for International Cooperation. Register: https://www.bccic.ca/event/idw-2022-kickoff/

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WEBINAR: Solutions to the Afghanistan Crisis: A Webinar With Dr. Shah Mehrabi
Mon February 7 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
Organized by Mass. Peace Action
Dr. Shah M. Mehrabi, Professor of Economics at Montgomery College, Maryland, will discuss the effects on the people of Afghanistan of U.S. policies, including freezing of assets and sanctions.  He is a member of the Supreme Council of the Central Bank of Afghanistan, a post he has held since 2003.  He has taught at several universities, both in Afghanistan and in the U.S. and has published many articles.   Read his Reuters article with recommendations to the IMF.
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUof-uoqDwrH9xi3OwpyCIgYrHP9dlhqf7p

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WEBINAR: NUCLEAR POWER - MYTH, LURE, DANGER AND REALITY
Monday, February 7 @ 7:00 pm
An informational webinar about the stark choices facing society as we contend with radioactive waste from decommissioned nuclear plants, rising sea levels and more frequent extreme weather events, all amid a 21st century nuclear arms race. With the Doomsday Clock set at 100 seconds to midnight, is the renewed development of nuclear energy a sound  solution for a warming planet?
https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEtf-2pqTgpGNQKX7S0RzLXYAIrBWyPv8JT

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WEBINAR: A NEW PINK TIDE? LEFT-WING ELECTORAL VICTORIES IN CHILE & HONDURAS
Tue February 8 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm EST
Organized by Mass. Peace Action
Join us to discuss the recent electoral victories of left-wing coalitions led by Xiomara Castro in Honduras and Gabriel Boric in Chile have inspired millions in Latin America and around the world. Just as the “Pink Tide” of leftist governments in Latin America appeared to have dissipated by the late 2010s, victories in Bolivia, Peru and of course Honduras and Chile, among others, have defied predictions of the left fizzling out in Latin America. On the evening of February 8 at 7pm, we will have a virtual discussion about the origins and driving factors of the leftist ascent to power in Honduras and Chile, and the odds of transformational change in those countries.
Those joining us in the discussion are:
-Allison Lire, Co-Director, Witness for Peace Solidarity Collective – Honduras Team
-Karen Spring, Honduras-based Coordinator, Honduras Now
-Tomás Leighton, member of the Revolución Democrática party/Frente Amplio coalition
-David Duhalde, DSA Fund Vice-Chair
Register: https://masspeaceaction.org/event/a-new-pink-tide-left-wing-electoral-victories-in-chile-honduras/

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WEBINAR: UKRAINE – THE NEXT NATO WAR?
Tuesday 8th February at 7pm UTC
(8am HT | 2pm ET | 7pm UTC | 8pm CET)
Organised by No to war – No to NATO network
What’s going on in Ukraine? Why are Russian troops at the border? What’s it got to do with NATO?
Peace movements across Europe are addressing these questions, engaging with peace activists in Ukraine and beyond to work for a sustainable peace.
Let’s get to the facts and do what we can to help avoid this flashpoint leading to war.
Speakers are:
•            Opening Kristine Karch, Germany, Co-Chair No to NATO, campaign Stopp Air Base Ramstein
•            Reiner Braun, Germany, Executive Director International Peace Bureau (IPB)
•            Nina Potarska, Ukraine National Coordinator Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF)
•            Yuri Sheliazhenko, Chair of Ukraine chapter of War Resisters International, peace journalist
Moderation: Kate Hudson, Secretary General Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), ICC No to NATO
This webinar is part of the mobilization of counter actions towards the NATO summit in Madrid 29+30 June 2022.
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEqf-qopjsoE9z6Rsv8LOFwXPjmBAu1sMsP   https://www.no-to-nato.org/

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WEBINAR: Enviro Café with David Robertson: Ford’s Bogus Climate Plan /The Climate Emergency and The New Face of Denial
Feb 8, 2022 07:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)
With less than 5 months before the June 2, 2022 provincial election, it’s time to take stock of Doug Ford’s climate legacy. Join us for a virtual presentation by David Robertson, from Seniors for Climate Action Now (SCAN!), on the immense and growing cost of Doug Ford’s brand of climate change denial.
Time
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0tcu-urTsoGdUbe_45cMi3Cv-RkPi1fxn2

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WEBINAR: “Medicine Not Missiles” with Dr. Jonathan Down
Wednesday, Feb. 9 at 5pm PST.
Register by email: admin at ippnwcanada.ca<mailto:admin at ippnwcanada.ca>
Canada plans to purchase fighter jets — what are the implications for our health and safety? Dr. Down will address this question in his talk and speak about the need to halt this purchase.
Dr. Jonathan Down is President of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada. He graduated from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical College in London, England in 1975 and trained as a General Paediatrician before undertaking subspecialty training in Developmental Paediatrics in Vancouver BC. More importantly he has two children, three grandchildren and a very tolerant Kiwi wife.
The event will be on Wednesday, February 9th at 5pm PST/7pm CST/8pm EST/9pm AST/9:30 NST.
Find out more about the IPPNW Canada here: https://www.ippnwcanada.ca/
Register by email: admin at ippnwcanada.ca<mailto:admin at ippnwcanada.ca>
Please retweet: https://twitter.com/TamaraLorincz/status/1490393110991577092

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WEBINAR: Harms & Risks: Why Canada Shouldn’t Buy the F-35
Thursday, February 10 at 7:30 pm ET
with ret. Capt. Dan Grazier, U.S. defense expert with Project on Government Oversight
Co-hosted by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom-Canada (WILPF-Canada).
Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pSFkF8nHRImpZsk326W2hQ
Before taking office, Justin Trudeau assured voters he would not purchase the F-35 fighter jet. Now the Liberals look set to break their promise and purchase 88 of these dangerous, climate-destroying warplanes for $19 billion, it’s the second most expensive procurement in Canadian history.
Hear from Capt. Dan Grazier (ret.), defense expert & the Jack Shanahan Military Fellow with the U.S. based Project on Government Oversight (POGO), about the highly flawed F-35 stealth fighter jet program. Dan is a leading critic of the F-35 program in the US. He has written extensively about problems in U.S. military procurement and with the F-35. He has appeared before congressional hearings to discuss concerns related to defense contracting especially with Lockheed Martin’s new stealth fighter fleet. He will discuss the history of the F-35 program, the prime contractor Lockheed Martin and how the problems we are currently dealing with were embedded at the program' inception. He will give an update on the program and raise concerns Canadians should consider in their decision about buying the F-35. POGO investigates & exposes waste, corruption and abuse of power in government especially in the U.S. Department of Defense. https://www.pogo.org/
Dan will be joined by Tamara Lorincz, researcher and member with the Women’s International League for Peace & Freedom (WILPF) Canada and author of a new report Soaring: The Harms and Risks of Fighter Jets and Why Canada Must Not Buy a New Fleet.
Moderated by Bianca Mugyenyi, Canadian Foreign Policy Institute.
Co-hosted by the Canadian Foreign Policy Institute and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom-Canada (WILPF-Canada).
Register: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pSFkF8nHRImpZsk326W2hQ
Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/1112868039461215/?ref=newsfeed
Share on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TamaraLorincz/status/1489735752300781573

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WEBINAR: NO WAR IN UKRAINE: STOP NATO EXPANSION
Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 1:30 PM ET
Our esteemed panel includes Jeremy Corbyn, Professor Richard Sakwa, Die Linke's Christine Buchholz and Stop the War's Andrew Murray. More to be announced very soon.
Organized by Stop the War Coalition UK.
Register here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/no-war-in-ukraine-stop-nato-expansion?source=direct_link&&link_id=0&can_id=08297aacfa6299b1025e006dffcf983d&email_referrer=email_1432236&email_subject=no-war-in-ukraine-stop-nato-expansion

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PANEL: OFF THE HILL: WHOSE BUDGET IS IT, ANYWAY?
Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 7:30 EST/4:30 PST.
Panel of speakers on the upcoming federal budget. Organized by Rabble.ca
Register here: https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/off-the-hill-whose-budget-anyway/

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WEBINAR: “Hands Off Venezuela, One Year Anniversary”
Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 7:00 EST/4: PST.
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_fndIssFsSTmxP5Kt-49IzQ

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WEBINAR FOR VDAY: U.S. SANCTIONS STARVE AFGHANS: END THIS CONTINUING WAR
With Phyllis Bennis and Kathy Kelly & more
Feb 15 at 7pm ET
Join Grannies for Peace and special guests for this Valentine's Day webinar!
This free, public webinar will address the topic of how U.S. sanctions starve Afghans and how we can shift to policies based on love.
Sign up here to get the link: https://actionnetwork.org/events/valentines-day-webinar-presented-by-grannies-for-peace
The event will include presentations, followed by Q&A, from these presenters:
Kathy Kelly: Author, peace activist, co-coordinator of the Ban Killer Drones campaign and co-founder of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, a campaign to end U.S. military and economic warfare, who has spent much time living with Iraqis and Afghans in their communities during the wars in their countries. Kathy is also an advisory board member of World BEYOND War.
Phyllis Bennis: Author and foreign policy scholar, Phyllis directs the New Internationalism Project at the Institute for Policy Studies focusing on the Middle East, U.S wars, and UN issues. She is the author or editor of eleven books, including Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terrorism.
Webinar hosting by World BEYOND War.
Music by Terri Roben, singer, songwriter, and song leader.
Moderator: Mabel Leon of Grannies for Peace.

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WEBINAR: Who’s Afraid of the Military Industrial Complex? — The Shifting Politics of Pentagon Spending
February 16, 2022 from 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Organized by the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
https://quincyinst.org/event/whos-afraid-of-the-military-industrial-complex-the-shifting-politics-of-pentagon-spending/

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WEBINAR: WATER IS LIFE: A WEBINAR ON CHOOSING WATER OVER WAR.
Saturday, February 19, 2022 • 8:00 PM ET
With great international activists: former Philippines Congressman Walden Bello, Sung-hee Choi, Dr. Kamanamaikalani Beamer, Shinako Oyakawa, and Maria Hernandez. Moderated by Koohan Paik-Mander.
Register: https://actionnetwork.org/events/water-is-life-a-webinar-on-choosing-water-over-war

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WEBINAR: An evening with Dr. Cornel West
Feb 16, 2022 05:00 PM in Vancouver
The CCPA-BC Office and the BC Black History Awareness Society are pleased to co-present an online event with Dr. Cornel West.
Dr. West is an American philosopher, political activist, social critic and public intellectual. He is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Chair at Union Theological Seminary. He teaches on the works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, as well as courses in Philosophy of Religion, African American Critical Thought and a wide range of other subjects. He is the former Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and Professor Emeritus at Princeton University.
He has written 20 books, including Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. His most recent book, Black Prophetic Fire, offers an unflinching look at 19th and 20th-century African American leaders and their visionary legacies.
Dr. West is a frequent guest on Democracy Now. He has a passion to communicate to a vast variety of publics in order to keep alive the legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.—a legacy of telling the truth and bearing witness to love and justice.
More info and register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_K3VJNThZSX2cP5ifey0iFQ

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ONLINE DEBATE: CAN WAR EVER BE JUSTIFIED? MARK WELTON VS. DAVID SWANSON
Start: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 • 3:30 PM • Eastern Standard Time (US & Canada) (GMT-05:00)
Organized by World Beyond War
https://actionnetwork.org/events/online-debate-can-war-ever-be-justified-mark-welton-vs-david-swanson?clear_id=true
Speakers:
Dr. Mark Welton is Professor Emeritus at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He is an expert in International and Comparative (U.S., European, and Islamic) Law, Jurisprudence and Legal Theory, and Constitutional Law. He has authored chapters and articles on Islamic law, European Union law, international law, and the rule of law. He was Past Deputy Legal Advisor, United States European Command; Chief, International Law Division, U.S. Army Europe.
David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is a Co-Founder and Executive Director of World BEYOND War and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson’s books include Leaving WWII Behind, Twenty Dictators Currently Supported by the U.S., War Is A Lie and When the World Outlawed War. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org. He hosts Talk World Radio. He is a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee and was awarded the 2018 Peace Prize by the U.S. Peace Memorial Foundation.

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BORN IN BLACKNESS: THE CENTRAL ROLE OF AFRICANS IN THE MAKING OF THE MODERN WORLD
February 28, 2022 - 2:30pm ET
Presented by CIPS as part of Black History Month
With Howard W French, author of the new book “His most recent book "Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War" was published by Liveright in 2021.” Registration: Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-central-role-of-africans-in-the-making-of-the-modern-world-tickets-258098458437

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WEBINAR: “MULTIPOLAR OR MULTIPLEX: RISING POWERS, THE WEST AND THE REST”
March 1 @ 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Organized by the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University
Amitav Acharya is the UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance and Distinguished Professor at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC.
Register: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/balsillie-lecture-multipolar-or-multiplex-rising-powers-the-west-and-the-rest/

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WEBINAR: DR. KATE MARVEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE
Thursday, March 3, 5:00-7:00PM
Internationally renowned Columbia University and NASA scientist Dr. Kate Marvel will deliver the 2022 Eric Krause Memorial Lecture, Thursday, March 3, 5:00-7:00PM (online). Dr. Marvel will discuss using climate models, observations, paleoclimate reconstructions, and basic theory to study climate change at present and the future.  Her work has identified human influences on present-day cloud cover, rainfall patterns, and drought risk. Named one of "15 Women Who Will Save the World" by Time Magazine, she has been profiled by the New York Times and Rolling Stone, and her 2017 TED talk has been viewed over one million times. Organized by the University of Toronto School of the Environment:
Register for this event: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrdO2rrzIpHNL0l1R_Ul8dBasPi9_SIuu7

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WEBINAR: THE ROLE OF YEMENI ACTORS AND PROSPECTS FOR PEACE IN YEMEN
March 4, 2022 - 12:00 ET
Presented by CIPS and the Security Studies Network
Register: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-role-of-yemeni-actors-and-prospects-for-peace-in-yemen-tickets-258094707217

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WEBINAR: HOW CHINA ESCAPED SHOCK THERAPY: THE MARKET REFORM DEBATE
March 8 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm ET
Organized by the Balsillie School of International Affairs, Wilfrid Laurier University
Isabella M. Weber is a political economist working on monetary theory, China, global trade and the history of economic thought. She is an Assistant Professor of Economics and the Research Leader for China of the Asian Political Economy Program at the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Her first book How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate is the winner of the Joan Robinson Prize 2021 and the International Studies Association Best Interdisciplinary Book Award and has been recommended on best book of 2021 lists by the Financial Times, Foreign Policy, Project Syndicate, ProMarket and Folha de S.Paulo among others.
Register: https://www.balsillieschool.ca/event/how-china-escaped-shock-therapy-the-market-reform-debate/

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DAY OF ACTION FOR A JUST TRANSITION IN CANADA: SATURDAY, MARCH 12
Plan an event near you: https://350.org/just-transition-day-of-action/?akid=183628.4877032.H_ccfi&rd=1&t=6&utm_medium=email&utm_source=actionkit#map

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GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION FRIDAYS FOR FUTURE
Friday, March 25. Plan an event near you: https://fridaysforfuture.org/


PETITIONS, APPLICATIONS & CONSULTATIONS
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SIGN THE PETITION: Tell Government of Canada: Stop arming Ukraine, end Operation UNIFIER and Operation REASSURANCE, and withdraw all Canadian Armed Forces from Eastern Europe:
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/ukraineconflict?clear_id=true

Read our open statement “Stop arming Ukraine, end Operation UNIFIER and Operation REASSURANCE, and withdraw all Canadian Armed Forces from Eastern Europe”: https://www.foreignpolicy.ca/ukraine

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SIGN THE PETITION: Please help to sign & promote this petition calling on the Canadian Government to halt all transfers of arms to Saudi Arabia for use in its destruction of Yemen - the world's largest humanitarian disaster.
https://petitions.ourcommons.ca/en/Petition/Sign/e-3775

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SIGN THE PETITION: Time to stop recognizing Guaidó, leave Lima group, end sanctions and normalize relations with Venezuela
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/time-to-stop-recognizing-juan-guiado-leave-lima-group-end-sanctions-and-normalize-relations-with-venezuela

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SIGN THE PETITION: Leonard Peltier has COVID, 46 years in prison! Hospitalize and free him now!
https://www.change.org/p/joe-biden-leonard-peltier-has-covid-46-years-in-prison-hospitalize-and-free-him-now?fbclid=IwAR3BYSsaMEzkjKt2lIfVWvshcYSchaX3Yed9n34J6q16I48c_5RNKYfHCLs

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Apply! Rotary International World Peace Fellowship for 2023 applications are open now.
This is a great, all-expensive paid opportunity: https://www.rotary.org/en/our-programs/peace-fellowships

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Pre-Budget Consultations – Deadline Feb. 25
Fill out the survey here (it only takes 5 minutes):  https://www.letstalkbudget2022.ca/let-s-talk-budget-2022

Copies of my answers to the open questions if you’d like to use any of it:
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Reduce military spending and re-allocate it to urgent social and environmental needs. According to the Public Accounts of Canada 2021, federal spending on the Department of National Defence was $28.6 billion whereas the Department for Indigenous Services was only $4 billion, the Department of Environment and Climate was only $2 billion and the Department for Women and Gender Equality was only $51 million. Canada is spending too much on militarized security and supporting a male-dominated institution that deploys armed force and isn’t doing peacekeeping. Canada is ranked 69th in the world for peacekeeping with only 59 soldiers on UN peace support operations. Canada's military is involved in NATO operations that are causing instability and increasing conflict with other countries (for example in Afghanistan, Libya and Eastern Europe). Canada needs to demilitarize and cut military spending. We need greater federal investment in the things that really make us safe and secure our future like climate action, health care, education, Indigenous reconciliation and foreign aid (Canada hasn't ever met our 0.7% GDP target). These investments would help Canadians and people in developing countries, create more jobs at home and abroad, and stimulate the green care economy. See: https://www.tpsgc-pwgsc.gc.ca/recgen/cpc-pac/2021/vol2/s1/rcec-reet-eng.html
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Cancel the $19 billion procurement for fighter jets (don’t purchase armed drones and warships) and cut military spending then invest that money in climate action, affordable housing (ending homelessness), education (ending student debt), health care (including dental care, mental health care, ending the opioid crisis) and Indigenous reconciliation (end Indigenous poverty). No to militarism and yes to mutual aid.


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