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Progressive news, views and ideas GREEN NEW DEAL meet the ALTERNATIVE FEDERAL BUDGET how YEARS of ALTERNATIVE FEDERAL BUDGETING can STRENGTHEN DEMANDS for a SUSTAINABLE, CARING and DEMOCRATIC EST/ÉTABLIE ECONOMY 1980 MARCH/APRIL 2020 Contributors Bruce Campbell is adjunct Murray MacAdam is a veteran Scott Sinclair is a senior professor with York social justice activist in researcher at the CCPA and University’s Faculty of Peterborough, Ontario. Director of the centre’s Trade Environmental Studies, and Investment Research Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood is former executive director Project. Vol. 26, No. 6 a senior researcher with the of the Canadian Centre for ISSN 1198-497X CCPA whose work focuses on Arushana Sunderaeson is a Policy Alternatives, and Canada Post Publication 40009942 climate change, international development and database author of The Lac-Mégantic trade and just transitions. officer at the CCPA’s national The Monitor is published six times Rail Disaster: Public Betrayal, office, and an alumna of a year by the Canadian Centre for Justice Denied (James Lorimer John Rae is a member of YWCA Canada’s Think Big! Policy Alternatives. & Co). the Council of Canadians Lead Now! Young Women’s The opinions expressed in the With Disabilities’ national James Clark is a socialist, National Leadership Program. Monitor are those of the authors council, chair of its social trade unionist and anti-war and do not necessarily reflect policy committee, and a the views of the CCPA. activist based in Toronto. member of CCD’s human Please send feedback to Alex Hemingway is an rights and national [email protected]. economist and public finance accessibility and Inclusion policy analyst at the CCPA’s Act committees. During the Editor: Stuart Trew Senior Designer/Cover: Tim Scarth B.C. office. past 43 years, John has been a board member of many Layout: Susan Purtell Camille Labchuk is an animal Editorial Board: Alyssa O’Dell, human and disability rights rights lawyer, Executive Shannon Daub, Katie Raso, Erika organizations, including Director of Animal Justice and Shaker, Rick Telfer Co-chair of the Coalition co-host of the Paw & Order HELP US SHED LIGHT ON THE Contributing Writers: on Human Rights for the podcast. Anthony N. Morgan, Handicapped, which secured Elaine Hughes, Asad Ismi Marc Lee is a senior the first human rights ISSUES THAT MATTER TO YOU. economist with the B.C. office coverage for persons with CCPA National Office: of the CCPA. disabilities in Ontario. 141 Laurier Avenue W, Suite 1000 Ottawa, ON K1P 5J3 (we’ve got some bright ideas) Tel: 613-563-1341 Fax: 613-233-1458 [email protected] www.policyalternatives.ca CCPA BC Office: MAKE A DONATION Tax receipts are issued for contributions of $15 or more. 520-700 West Pender Street Vancouver, BC V6C 1G8 Tel: 604-801-5121 I would like to make a monthly contribution of: I would like to make a one-time donation of: Fax: 604-801-5122 [email protected] $25 $15 $10 Other ____ OR $300 $100 $75 Other ____ CCPA Manitoba Office: 301-583 Ellice Avenue PAYMENT TYPE: Winnipeg, MB R3B 1Z7 Tel: 204-927-3200 I would like to receive my [email protected] I’ve enclosed a cheque (made payable to CCPA, or void cheque for monthly donation) subscription to The Monitor: VISA MASTERCARD CCPA Nova Scotia Office: I’d like to make my contribution by: By e-mail P.O. 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Deal w ew e Alternative Federal Budget 2020 Budget Federal Alternative N Decade, N — Our plan for a just economy and sustainable Contributors CONTENTS Bruce Campbell is adjunct Murray MacAdam is a veteran Scott Sinclair is a senior professor with York social justice activist in researcher at the CCPA and University’s Faculty of Peterborough, Ontario. Director of the centre’s Trade Environmental Studies, and Investment Research Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood is former executive director Project. Vol. 26, No. 6 a senior researcher with the of the Canadian Centre for ISSN 1198-497X AFB 2020 CCPA whose work focuses on Arushana Sunderaeson is a Policy Alternatives, and Canada Post Publication 40009942 climate change, international development and database New decade, new deal author of The Lac-Mégantic trade and just transitions. officer at the CCPA’s national / 14–25 The Monitor is published six times Rail Disaster: Public Betrayal, office, and an alumna of a year by the Canadian Centre for Justice Denied (James Lorimer John Rae is a member of YWCA Canada’s Think Big! Policy Alternatives. & Co). the Council of Canadians Lead Now! Young Women’s The opinions expressed in the With Disabilities’ national James Clark is a socialist, National Leadership Program. Monitor are those of the authors council, chair of its social trade unionist and anti-war and do not necessarily reflect policy committee, and a the views of the CCPA. activist based in Toronto. member of CCD’s human What can 25 years of Please send feedback to Alex Hemingway is an rights and national [email protected]. economist and public finance accessibility and Inclusion policy analyst at the CCPA’s Act committees. During the alternative budgeting offer the Editor: Stuart Trew Senior Designer/Cover: Tim Scarth B.C. office. past 43 years, John has been a board member of many campaign for a Green New Deal Layout: Susan Purtell Camille Labchuk is an animal Editorial Board: Alyssa O’Dell, human and disability rights rights lawyer, Executive Shannon Daub, Katie Raso, Erika organizations, including in Canada? Quite a lot. Director of Animal Justice and Shaker, Rick Telfer Co-chair of the Coalition co-host of the Paw & Order HELP US SHED LIGHT ON THE Contributing Writers: on Human Rights for the podcast. Anthony N. Morgan, Handicapped, which secured Stuart Trew and Elaine Hughes, Asad Ismi Marc Lee is a senior the first human rights ISSUES THAT MATTER TO YOU. economist with the B.C. office coverage for persons with Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood CCPA National Office: of the CCPA. disabilities in Ontario. 141 Laurier Avenue W, Suite 1000 Ottawa, ON K1P 5J3 plus / (we’ve got some bright ideas) Tel: 613-563-1341 Fax: 613-233-1458 A quarter-century chronology [email protected] www.policyalternatives.ca of the Alternative Federal Budget, and CCPA economist Marc Lee’s case CCPA BC Office: MAKE A DONATION Tax receipts are issued for contributions of $15 or more. 520-700 West Pender Street for a federal carbon budget Vancouver, BC V6C 1G8 Tel: 604-801-5121 I would like to make a monthly contribution of: I would like to make a one-time donation of: Fax: 604-801-5122 [email protected] $25 $15 $10 Other ____ OR $300 $100 $75 Other ____ CCPA Manitoba Office: UP FRONT FEATURES 301-583 Ellice Avenue PAYMENT TYPE: FIGHTING PERIOD POVERTY IN CANADA U.S. AND CANADA SIDE Winnipeg, MB R3B 1Z7 Arushana Sunderaeson / 5 WITH FANATICAL COUP Tel: 204-927-3200 I would like to receive my (made payable to CCPA, or void cheque for monthlyREGIME donation) IN BOLIVIA [email protected] I’ve enclosed a cheque SO LONG, MSP! subscription to The Monitor: Asad Ismi Alex Hemingway /VISA6 MASTERCARD CCPA Nova Scotia Office: I’d like to make my contribution by: / 28 By e-mail P.O. Box 8355 U.S.-STYLE “AG GAG” LAWS THE MISSING LINKS Mailed to my address Halifax, NS B3K 5M1 CREDIT CARD NUMBER: COME TO CANADA Tel: 902-240-0926 TO DISABILITY EQUALITY Camille Labchuk / 10 No Monitor, thanks [email protected] EXPIRY DATE: SIGNATURE: John Rae CCPA Ontario Office: BOEING AND LAC-MÉGANTIC, / 30 DISASTERS FORETOLD 720 Bathurst Street, Room 307 A YEAR OF REVOLT: Toronto, ON M5S 2R4 CONTACT INFORMATIONBruce Campbell / 11 Tel: 416-598-5985 20 KEY STRUGGLES [email protected] COLUMNS TO WATCH IN 2020 Name COLOUR-CODED JUSTICE James Clark Return this form to: CCPA Saskatchewan Office: Reflections on my big / 32 500-251 BANK ST. 2nd Floor, 2138 McIntyre Street Address Obama moment OTTAWA, ON K2P 1X3 Regina, SK S4P 2R7 Tel: 306-924-3372 Anthony N. Morgan / 13 Fax: 306-586-5177 City Province Postal Code Or donate online at: [email protected] WWW.POLICYALTERNATIVES.CA Telephone (Required) Email Editorial 2 | Letters 3 | New From the CCPA 4 | Index 7 | Good News Page 27 | Books 38 Yes, I prefer to receive my tax receipt Please do not trade my name with other and updates by email. organizations. REGISTERED CHARITY #124146473 RR0001 From the Editor STUART TREW Inconvenience and indifference NDIFFERENCE, said Antonio Gramsci, is protests temporarily shut down the a decision in December from the UN “the mainspring of history.” By that provincial legislature. As Parliament Committee on the Elimination of he meant it is not the active few who returned on February 18, Mohawks of Racial Discrimination, which called Idetermine what comes to pass, for the Tyendinaga First Nation continued on Canada to “immediately halt the better or worse, but “the absenteeism to blockade rail tracks near Belleville, construction and suspend all permits of the many.” The indifferent masses, Ontario, stopping commuter and and approvals for the construction of he said, “allow the knots to form that commercial goods transport across the Coastal GasLink pipeline” until in time only a sword will be able to CN’s eastern network.