Statement Archive

Statement on Negotiations Toward a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement Between Canada and the European Union

Posted: Monday, 18 October 2010

Free trade is ... viewed as reliance on the market to determine economic reality. It is part and parcel of the same philosophy that lends support to the “downsizing” of government, privatization, deregulation; in short, the package of “remedies” tha… Read More

Georgetti criticizes “chilling” bail provisions on G20 protester

Posted: Friday, 15 October 2010

CLC president Ken Georgetti says that a new set of bail conditions imposed on Alex Hundert, an accused protester at last summer’s G20 summit in Toronto, are “chilling.” Hundert was released in July on $100,000 bail with terms, including not participat… Read More

CLC responds to federal government’s economic forecast

Posted: Thursday, 14 October 2010

The Canadian Labour Congress has repeated a call for the federal government to place a continued emphasis on job creation. CLC president Ken Georgetti was responding to the release by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty of the government’s economic update for … Read More

Join the Sisters in Spirit movement

Posted: Friday, 1 October 2010

October 4th is a day where we honour the lives of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls. The violence experienced by Aboriginal women and girls in Canada is a national tragedy. As of March 31, 2010, the Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWA… Read More