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COAT began
in 1989 by exposing and opposing ARMX, Canada's largest weapons bazaar. (Early
history) Our first campaign led to
Ottawa Council's 20-year ban on
hosting arms bazaars on municipal property. For more than two decades, COAT has published
Press for Conversion! magazine, organized peace rallies, vigils,
conferences and campaigns against the arms trade, military air shows,
Canada's role in US-led wars and regime changes. Join us!
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Pension Plan has invested $1.5 billion in 66
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"Profiting from Israeli Apartheid:
Canada Pension Plan
Investments in Corporations Supporting
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Stoking the Tsunamis
of War and Repression
On March 11, 2011, just hours after Japan's
earthquake,
the Canadian government
finally released its
much-delayed, severely-flawed report
on
arms exports. Contrary to government rhetoric, over 96% of Canada's
military exports go to countries at war. Canadian military exports also
aid and abet regimes that flagrantly and systematically abuse basic human
rights.
In 2011, COAT published a database revealing details on 18,888 Canadian military-export contracts to the US (worth US$7.2 billion). This database exposes Canadian firms selling small arms, ammunition, battle vehicles and high-tech parts for major weapons that the US has used in Iraq and elsewhere. Because Canadian government reports (both Liberal & Conservative alike) have never included any Canadian sales to the US, they have concealed 80% of our military exports. COAT's publication of this database reverses this longstanding and shameful cover up.
Canada, at War in Iraq!
"Operation Silent Partner:
Canada's Quiet Complicity in
the Iraq War"
(Press for Conversion! Issue 65, Dec.
2010)
Canada's Covert War
in Iraq
George Orwell meets Canada's General
Natynczyk in Iraq
(The CCPA Monitor, Sept. 2008)
In the Wake of Wikileaks:
A Media Critique of
Revelations about Canadian Duplicity in Iraq
(The CCPA Monitor, July 2011)
Canada's Military Exports to the
Middle East
and
North Africa
For
decades, Conservative & Liberal governments alike --
while preaching peace and human rights -- have facilitated and
promoted the steady flow of weapons, ammunition, tear gas, battle
vehicles, explosives and much more, to repressive undemocratic governments
in the Middle East and North Africa. Inspired by popular revolutions and
protests throughout the region, COAT has published many sets of detailed data tables to expose $2 Billion in
Canadian arms exports to the region. COAT's research shows that Canada is
deeply complicit in aiding
and abetting many unpopular U.S.-backed puppet regimes that have retained
their grip on power through
coercion, intimidation and violence.
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Canada,
a Force for Peace,
eh?
COAT articles
debunking Canada's #1 national myth
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