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Citizen Association Campaign 1995-2006
Advocating the creation of citizen watchdog
groups for
all business 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
To see Citizen Association
Campaign main page, click
here
Democracy
Watch
produced the following general information materials in its Citizen
Association Campaign from 1995-2006
(oldest to newest)
- REPORT: Balancing the
Marketplace:
The Case for the Creation of Citizen Associations in Canada (May 1995)
- OP-ED: Canadians can learn
from U.S. consumer watchdogs (January 1996)
- WEBSITE ARTICLE: Citizen
Utility
Board
a
Solution
to
Electricity
Utility
Problems (CBC TV's
Marketplace, January 23, 2001)
- NEWS RELEASE Governments
Should
Act
On
Corporate
Responsibility
and
Democracy
Report
(January 31, 2002)
- NEWS RELEASE: Federal
Parties Promises Not Enough to Ensure Honest, Accountable Federal
Government and Responsible Corporations, Report Card on Platforms
Reveals (June 25, 2004)
- NEWS RELEASE: Many
Voters Won't Vote, Parties Won't Receive Majority, Until System is
Fully Democratized (June 29, 2004)
- NEWS RELEASE: New
Cabinet Won't Act in Public Interest Until Honesty, Ethics, Openness,
Spending and Donations Laws Strengthened (July 23, 2004)
- NEWS RELEASE: Coalition
Calls
on
Ontario
Government
to
Help
Establish
Broad-Based Investor
Rights Group
(August 19, 2004)
- NEWS RELEASE: Ontario
Government Takes First Steps Toward Democratic Reforms, But Much More
Needs to Be Done (November 18, 2004)
- RADIO INTERVIEW: Duff
Conacher on CBC Radio's "The Current" re: need for effective corporate
regulation
and creation of citizen watchdog groups in Canada (December 21,
2004
- To listen to the interview, scroll down page this link takes you to
and
click on "Part 3" link (you will need Real Audio software to listen to
the
piece) the piece starts 9 minutes 24 seconds into Part 3 of the show
and
runs almost to the end of the show)
- OP-ED: Many Changes
Needed Before Canada Will be a Democracy (Hill Times (January 10,
2005) and Toronto Star (December 29, 2004))
- NEWS RELEASE: Ontario
Government Takes a Few, Loophole-Filled Steps Toward Democratic
Reforms, But Much More Needs to be Done (December 14, 2005)
- REPORT CARD: Federal
Conservative Party Has Best Government Accountability Election Platform
-- NDP, Greens, Bloc Tied Not Far Behind, Liberal Grades Much Worse --
All Platforms Still Have Key Gaps. . . (January 18, 2006) -- See
also WEBSITE ARTICLE on
CTV.ca's website about Democracy Watch's Report Card and Democracy
Watch's
January 16, 2006 news release by clicking
here
- REPORT CARD: Federal
NDP Has
Best Corporate Responsibility Platform, Greens and Bloc Not Too Far
Behind,
Conservative and Liberal Grades Much Worse -- Many Key Gaps in All
Parties'
Platforms . . . (January 19, 2006)
- NEWS RELEASE: Conservatives'
"Federal
Accountability
Act"
Should
Be
Expanded
to
Close
All
Loopholes
--
Other
Key Democratic Reforms Should Be Priority for All Parties in
Parliament
(March 27, 2006)
- NEWS RELEASE: Democracy
Watch
Details
Changes
in
15
Key
Areas
That Must Be Made to the Federal
Accountability Act to Ensure An Honest, Ethical, Open, Waste-Prevention
and Representative Federal Government (May 30, 2006)
- NEWS RELEASE: Key
Question for Parliament's Fall Session -- Will Government
Accountability Be Increaseed?
(September 19, 2006)
- OP-ED: Conservatives
Half-Measures Not Enough to Clean Up the Federal Government (Calgary
Herald
and Straightgoods.com, December 13, 2006)
- 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)
To
see
Citizen Association Campaign main page, click here
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