Citizen Association
Campaign
Advocating the creation of citizen
watchdog groups for all business and government
sectors using an innovative pamphlet method that has
given millions of people in the U.S. an easy way to
join strong watchdog groups over big businesses
Democracy
Watch
has produced the following general information
materials in its Citizen Association Campaign
(newest to oldest)
- TV INTERVIEW: Founding
Director Duff Conacher interviewed about Occupy Canada
protests across Canada and key corporate
responsibility and bank accountability measures
(CTV News Channel, October 15, 2011)
- OP-ED: People
are asking for protection from corporate greed and
wrongdoing – will Canada’s politicians finally give
it? (October 13-14, 2011)
- NEWS RELEASE: Occupy
Canada protesters should support 15 key bank and
corporate responsibility changes endorsed by 140
citizen groups across Canada for the past decade
(October 12, 2011) -- To see related iPolitics.ca
article, click
here, and CBC.ca article, click
here
- NEWS RELEASE: Green
Party receives D- best grade of bad overall grades in
Report Card on Ontario Parties' Good Government
Platforms -- Conservatives receive an E, NDP an F and
Liberals an Incomplete (September 30, 2011)
- NEWS RELEASE: Green
Party
receives B- best grade of bad overall grades in Report
Card on Federal Parties' Good Government Platforms,
Bloc second with C-, Conservatives, Liberals and NDP
all receive F (April 28, 2011)
- NEWS RELEASE: Federal Financial Literacy
Task Force Makes 30 Good Recommendations,
But Ignores Lowest-Cost, Most
Effective Solution
-- New Financial Consumer Group Would Do
Most To Increase Financial Literacy
(February 9, 2011) -- To see related Toronto Star
article, click
here, and CBC.ca article, click here
- NEWS RELEASE: Report
Card
Reveals No Matter Which Party Wins, Ontario Government
and Large Corporations Will Remain Largely
Unaccountable for Dishonest, Unethical, Secretive,
Unrepresentative and Wasteful Activities Because of
Key Gaps in Provincial Parties' "Good Government"
Platforms (October 5, 2007) -- To see the CTV.ca
article about the Report Card, and to watch a video of
the news conference, click
here
- NEWS RELEASE: Democracy
Watch
Proud
To
Have
Played
Small
Part
in
Charter of Rights History -- Canada Also Needs A
Charter of Government and Corporate Accountability and
Democracy (April 16, 2007)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: Federal
government should require telecommunications companies
to facilitate creation of a telecomm consumers
watchdog group (Toronto Star, February 16,
2007)
- NEWS RELEASE: Many
Ontario
Politicians on Unethical Gravy Train -- Propose To
Raise Their Own Pay, But Not To Limit Donations, To
Strengthen Ethics Rules, Or To Strengthen Democracy
(December 19, 2006)
- OP-ED: Conservatives
Half-Measures
Not Enough to Clean Up the Federal Government (Calgary
Herald and Straightgoods.com, December 13, 2006)
To see a Model of the Law
that Democracy Watch and its coalitions are advocating
be passed by Canadian governments to create Citizen
Associations, please click on the following link:
Consumer,
Shareholder
and
Taxpayer Protection Association Act
To see the Law that created the Citizen
Utility Board (CUB) in Illinois, please click on the
following link:
Illinois
Citizen
Utility
Board (CUB) Law (PDF version)
To see a Report
on how citizen associations acting as watchdogs over
utilities in U.S. states have worked, please click on
the following link:
Report
on
U.S.
Citizen Utility Boards (html version)
Report
on U.S. Citizen Utility Boards (PDF version)
Democracy
Watch advocates the creation of an Individual Investor Organization
(IIO) to watch over the
investment industry in Canada as part of its
Corporate Responsibility Campaign
For more information, view the news releases since
April 2000 or follow the link to the Corporate
Responsibility Coalition on the Corporate Responsibility
Campaign page
- Questions
and
Answers about the proposed Individual Investor
Organization (IIO)
- NEWS RELEASE: Federal
Conservatives'
Proposed
White-Collar
Crime
Measures
Too
Little,
Too
Late
to
Protect
Investors
and
Consumers
--
U.S. Experience Shows Two New Citizen Watchdog
Groups Needed For Effective Corporate Accountability
(October 21, 2009)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: Small
investors
at risk, coalition calls on government to help create
investor rights association (Halifax
Chronicle-Herald, January 21, 2007)
- LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: Business Media Give
Banks an Easy Ride on Corporate Responsibility
(Report on Business magazine, April 29, 2005)
- OP-ED: A Recipe
for Cleaning Up the Investment Industry (Corporate Knights
magazine, April 28, 2005)
- RADIO PIECE: Duff
Conacher on CBC Radio's "The House" Calling for More
Comprehensive, Effective Regulation of Investment
Industry (December 11 , 2004 -- To listen to the
piece, click on the "Dec. 11" link under the heading
"2004" on the page this link takes you to (you will need
Real Audio software to listen to the piece) the piece
starts 27 minutes 37 seconds into the show, and ends 36
minutes 22 seconds into the show)
- NEWS RELEASE: Coalition
Calls
on
Ontario Government to Help Establish Broad-Based
Investor Rights Group (August 19, 2004)
Democracy Watch
has produced the following materials in its campaign
to establish a Financial
Consumer Organization (FCO) to
watch over Canada's banks and federally regulated
insurance companies:
- Questions and Answers
about the proposed Financial Consumer Organization
- NEWS RELEASE: Federal Financial Literacy
Task Force Makes 30 Good
Recommendations, But Ignores Lowest-Cost, Most
Effective Solution
-- New Financial Consumer Group Would Do
Most To Increase Financial Literacy
(February 9, 2011) -- To see related Toronto Star
article, click
here, and CBC.ca article, click
here
- LETTER-TO-THE-EDITOR: Canada has a
government Financial Consumer Agency, but it is too
weak, and financial consumer group needed (Hill Times,
January 17, 2011)
- NEWS RELEASE: Federal
Conservatives' Proposed White-Collar Crime Measures
Too Little, Too Late to Protect Investors and
Consumers -- U.S. Experience Shows Two New
Citizen Watchdog Groups Needed For Effective
Corporate Accountability (October 21,
2009)
Please also view the Canadian Community
Reinvestment Coalition (CCRC) website,
especially News
Releases and Position
Paper
#4 (Summary)
which sets out the CCRC's model for a Financial
Consumer Organization for Canada.
The CCRC was organized and is coordinated by
Democracy Watch and its partner organization, the
Democracy Education Network. The CCRC was launched
in December 1996, and since then Democracy Watch has
pushed for the created of a Financial Consumer
Organization in Canada through the nation-wide CCRC,
which is made up of more than 100 citizen groups
representing over 3 million Canadians.
Democracy Watch
has produced the following materials in its campaign
to establish a Telecommunications
Consumer Organization (TCO) to
watch over cable TV, telephone and satellite companies
in Canada:
Democracy Watch
has produced the following materials in its campaign
to establish an Airline
Passenger Organization (APO) to
watch over airlines in Canada:
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