Submission to the International Development Committee, House of Commons

Statement by the Halifax Initiative Coalition To the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade (SCFAIT) Regarding the G-8 Agenda

May 14, 2002

We welcome the opportunity to comment on the key themes of the up-coming G8 Summit.

PARLIAMENTARY UPDATE:
Support for the Tobin Tax Growing Around the World
 
With the exception of Canada, which is backpeddling on its commitment to Tobin tax adoption in the motion passed on March 23, 1999, and the US, which is ideologically opposed to any control over “free” markets, the debate on the need for and feasibility of currency controls is growing globally. Below are some recent milestones.
 
Argentina

2-3 Feb. 2002
 

Should African social movements be part of the "New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)?"

Notes from a speech given by Trevor Ngwane to the African Social Forum's African Seminar at the World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2 February 2002.

1. Introduction

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Probe International’s Brief on Bill C-31: An Act to amend to Export Development Act...
Presented to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade

October 18, 2001
by Patricia Adams

NGO Working Group
on the Export Development Corporation
A working group of the Halifax Initiative

Background paper
for the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade Hearings on Bill C-31 on the Export Development Act

October 15, 2001

The NGO Working Group on the Export Development Corporation is a coalition of 17 Canadian non-governmental organisations concerned about the social, human and environmental impacts of export credit agencies. The NGO Working Group has been participating fully in the legislative process on the Export Development Act since 1999, including the SCFAIT hearings in 1999, the public consultations on the EDC’s disclosure policy and environmental review framework, and the international campaign to reform export credit agencies which has focused on the OECD’s Export Credit Guarantees process.

Bill C-31,
AN ACT TO AMEND THE EXPORT DEVELOPMENT ACT
OCTOBER 2001

Linda Nowlan, Executive Director
West Coast Environmental Law Association

I Introduction — West Coast Environmental Law Association

 
 
"Taxing Currency Transactions for Development"
January 2001
 

ABSTRACT