Here is an excellent letter from the Ottawa Presbytery of the United Church
of Canada calling on Mayor O'Brien and Ottawa City Councillors to "respect the
commitment made by City Council in 1989 to ban war-related trade shows from
municipal property."
Click here for more
information on this campaign to oppose CANSEC 2009.
Oppose
CANSEC 2009!
Canada's Ottawa-based Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) is campaigning to expose and oppose CANSEC 2009, Canada's
largest military industry trade show. CANSEC 2009 will be hosted at a City of
Ottawa facility called Lansdowne Park, May 27-28, 2009. Please join us in exposing and
opposing CANSEC!
Sign our Online Petition to stop
CANSEC
Print a paper petition and
collect signatures
Click here to read
more about our CAMPAIGN
Contact City Council
Read a sample letter from the
Ottawa
Presbytery of the United Church of Canada
Join our events in Ottawa:
Planning
Meeting to Oppose CANSEC
Monday, April 6, 7:30 pm
Southminster United Church
15 Aylmer
Ave at Bank Street.
(Just south of the Rideau Canal. Enter from the
Galt St. entrance at the back of the complex.)
Rally and Candlelight Vigil
Wednesday, May 27, 7 pm
Southminster United Church
15 Aylmer
Ave at Bank Street.
Speakers include Paul Dewar, MP, Ottawa Centre,
NDP Foreign Policy critic