Manufacturing Matters Campaign Kit - August 2007
This Manufacturing Matters Campaign Kit was produced for the August 2007 CAW-TCA Joint Council meeting in Newfoundland. It contains a series of four policy position papers, a plan for action, a manufacturing campaign pledge sheet, as well as a detailed report back of the first leg of the campaign.
- Manufacturing Matters: A Look-Back at Phase 1
- A Plan for Action
- Policy Fact Sheet #1 - Buy Canadian Legislation
- Policy Fact Sheet #2 - Canada's Growing Trade Imbalance
- Policy Fact Sheet #3 - Business Investment and Foreign Takeovers
- Policy Fact Sheet #4 - The Skyrocketing Canadian Dollar
- Manufacturing Lobby Pledge Sheet
Free trade with the European Union is a bad idea for Canada
The Harper government's relentless push to sign a new Canada-EU free trade deal would undermine the rights of federal, provincial and municipal governments to manage public spending over goods and services; it would privatize public services like drinking water, prevent us from adopting strong measures to combat climate change and wipe out up to 150,000 Canadian jobs, among a long list of additional concerns. CAW President Ken Lewenza says:
So far, all signs point to a free trade deal that is lopsided, unfair and would do more harm than good to Canadians. 
