Killer Pensions:
Pension funds force Canadians to invest in war industries
CCPA Monitor, July 1, 2012

COAT's campaign against CPP investment's in Israeli Apartheid

Petition: Stop CPP investments supporting Israel’s military, police, prisons

COAT's online petition had almost 1400 signatories. Click above to see the petition and read the signers comments.

CPPIB Meetings
Every two years the CPP Investment Board holds public meeting in provincial capitals, and online. These meetings are announced only ten before they occur. People can't stand up and ask questions directly. They write down questions, submit them and then the CPPIB decides which it will ones it will answer. Their answers are brief and usually involve delivering their basic message which is that they are very ethical and will invest in anything that is legal.

In 2012 and 2016, COAT encouraged supporters to attend these meetings in order to try to raise embarrassing issues about CPP investments in:
(1) the world's largest weapons manufacturers and
(2) companies profiting from Israeli Apartheid.

As a result, peace, antiwar and human rights activists in several cities attended CPPIB meetings where they were able to ask embarrassing questions.

For example, here is a report about the CPPIB's 2012 meeting in Victoria BC
COAT Report Sparks Question about Israeli Military Attack against Aid Ship to Gaza

COAT's CPP Slide Show presented in Winnipeg 2017

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Canada Pension Plan Here are 12 data tables produced by Richard Sanders for COAT that detail CPP investments in a variety of unethical industries. CPP, CANSEC and the World's Top-100 War Industries CPP investing $1.3 Billion in 36 of the World's Top-100 War Industries. This includes $559 million in about 30 of these corporations whose subsidiaries will exhibit at the annual CANSEC military trade show in Ottawa (May 30-31, 2018) CPP War Stocks Boosted by US Strike on Syria CPP stocks got a huge boost thanks to the US/UK/France Air Strikes on Syria The value of nine of the world's top ten war industries went up thanks to the April 2018 air strikes. The CPP invests in all of these huge weapons companies (and many more). Eight of the Global Top 10 will have Canadian subsidiaries at the CANSEC weapons bazaar in Ottawa (May 30-31, 2018) CPP Investments in Nuclear Weapons The CPP Invested $451 Million in 14 Nuclear-Weapons Corporations (including those with 8 subsidiaries exhibiting at CANSEC 2018) The CPP has invested almost a half a billion dollars of our retirement savings in fourteen companies that are involved in the production, maintenance, and/or modernisation of nuclear weapons for the US, Britain and France. Of these 14 companies 6 have subsidiaries in Canada that are exhibiting at CANSEC 2018, in Ottawa May 30-31. One nuclear-weapons company, General Dynamics, has three subsidiaries at this military trade show. CPP Investments in Cruise Missiles & other Weapons The CPP invested $207 million invested in the nine weapons manufacturers that built all of the cruise missiles, warplanes, warships, and the submarine used Illegal US-UK-France Air Strikes against Syria, April 2018 Here are some COAT tables detailing CPP investments in 2017/2018: Fourteen F35-Warplane Contractors ($495 Million) Eight of Canada's Top-10 Mining Companies ($980 Million) Six of Canada's Top-10 Oil Companies ($1.4 Billion) Nine of the Worlds's Top Nine Tobacco Companies ($1.7 Billion) Nineteen of the "World's 20 Worst Companies" ($8.38 Billion) COAT tables on CPP's 2016/2017 investments: $11 Billion in banks providing US$313 billion to 26 nuclear-bomb makers $5.5 Billion in firms supporting Israeli Apartheid The Canada Pension Plan invested $5.46 billion in 72 companies linked to Israel's military-, police-, surveillance-, prison-industrial complex $6.8 Billion in 77 financial institutions providing US$18.7 Billion to seven Cluster-bomb Makers Some older COAT tables (2012): The Six Largest Pension Funds in Canada all Invest in the World's Top War Industries * Master Table: Pensions and War (combines data from all tables below) Five Tables on Canada's Six Largest Pension Fund's Investments in: * The world's top-100 war industries * F-35 stealth fighter/bomber contractors * Cluster-munition manufacturers * Nuclear weapons manufacturers * Top-100 war industries from prior to 2010	COAT Campaigns Against Unethical CPP Investments COAT organized two campaigns against unethical CPP investments. The first, which began in 2003, focused on weapons industries in general, while the second campaign, starting in 2012, opposed CPP investments in corporations profiting from Israeli Apartheid. (See below). CPP and War Industries COAT's first CPP-related campaign began with an issue of Press for Conversion! magazine that highlighted this pension fund's investments in the world's largest war industries. In particular, we drew attention to how Canadian citizens were are forced to invest their pension monies in prime contractors for major weapons systems that were being used in the US-led War against Iraq. COAT's Petition Against War Investments COAT's campaign included creating an petition that garnered 3500 signatures to: Stop Canada Pension Plan Investments in War View archived signatories and their comments COAT inspiring a Day-long Parliamentary Debate COAT's magazine and its campaign against CPP investments in war "inspired" the NDP to force a day-long debate in the House of Commons. The NDP used one of its "Opposition Days" to focus on the subject of CPP investments in arm s industries. The Liberals and Conservatives "The motion introduced [in Parliament] by Mr. [Pat] Martin last week calls for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Review Board to be 'prohibited from investing in companies and enterprises that manufacture and trade in military arms and weapons, have records of poor environmental and labour practices or whose conduct and practices are contrary to Canadian values.'.... Mr. Martin said his motion was inspired by a recent study by the Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, which linked CPP investments to top U.S. military contractors." Bill Curry, "Invest pension fund ethically: NDP motion," Ottawa Citizen, February 8, 2004. Here's the Press for Conversion! issue that launched COAT's first campaign: #52 (October 2003): Operation Embedded Complicity: Canada, Playing our Part in the Business of War This issue is filled with detailed analysis of the many ways in which the Canadian government and corporations are deeply embedded in the U.S. “war machine.” For example, the Canada Pension Plan invests in America’s biggest war industries, including those producing dozens of major weapons systems used in the Iraq war that began in 2003. This issue has original COAT research listing 100 Canadian military companies that have provided parts and services for the major weapons systems used in Iraq. This issue also exposes statistics on the how the Canadian government has over the past few decades given billions of dollars to Canadian arms industries that have aided and abetted US wars and invasions. Also revealed is a the flow of financial support from Canada's military industrial complex into both the Liberal Party and the Conservative Party. This issue provides detailed evidence showing that over the past decade, war-related corporations in Canada have given millions of dollars in political donations to these parties, and that the primary recipient of this corporate largesse has been the Liberal Party
Profiting from Israeli Apartheid: Canada Pension Plan Investments in Corporations Supporting Israel's Military-, Police-, Surveillance-, Prison-Industrial Complex (Part 1) #66 (Spring 2012) (54 pages) *(Part 2)* #67 (Fall 2012) (52 pages) In an effort to support the international Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement, and the call for an arms embargo on Israel, COAT's two-part report exposes $1.5 billion-worth of CPP investments in 68 companies selling products and services for Israel's wars and the illegal occupation of Palestinian land.
*Part 1* exposes these companies' links to Israeli Apartheid: 3M, Amdocs, Analog Devices, AT&T, BAE Systems, Bank Hapoalim, Bezeq, Bharat Electronics, CAE, Carlyle Group, Caterpillar, Cellcom Israel, Cemex, Cisco, CRH, Daewoo Engineering & Construction, Daimler, Delek, Dell, Discount Investment Corp, Doosan, Eaton, Elbit Systems, EMC, Evraz Group, Fiat Industrial, Fiat, Finmeccanica, Fujitsu, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Honeywell Int'l, Hyundai Motor and Hyundai Heavy Industries. Other articles focus on: Israeli Spy Companies (Verint & Narus); top state-owned Israeli war industries (IAI, IMI & Rafael), Vertex Venture Capital. *Part 2* reveals the complicity of these corporations: Intel, Israel Corp, Israel Discount Bank, ITT, Koninklijke, Kubota, Leumi Le’Israel, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, Mitsubishi Motors, Mizrahi Tefahot Bank, Motorola Solutions, Navistar, NetApp, NICE, Oracle, Parker Hannifin, Partner Communications, Paz Oil, Renault, Rockwell Collins, Rolls Royce, Siemens, Sony, Tata Motors, Texas Instruments, Toyota Motors, TE Connectivity, Tyco Int’l, Valero Energy, Verisign, Verizon, VMWare and Volvo. Canada's other top pension schemes* have invested an additional $3.2 billion in the 68 firms detailed in COAT's research. See this table summarising all these investments. Sources. * Quebec Pension Plan, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan, Public Sector Pension Investments and the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System.	"COAT’s research on CPP investments in Israeli apartheid is a window into the accelerating militarization of a hugely destructive, global system intricately connected with, and complicit in, Israel's wars and its occupation of Palestine. "The thorough findings carefully document the corporate profits and impunity, the transnational connections, the weapons and security systems, the militarized prisons and police forces, the destruction of peoples’ lives and environments. It’s a picture of a thoroughly pathological and globalized sub-society that must be stopped." Judith Deutsch, MSW, University of California at Berkeley, is a practicing psychoanalyst and a faculty member of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Institute, University of Toronto. She is the vice president of Science for Peace, and was its president between 2008 and 2012. Judy is an active member of Independent Jewish Voices Toronto, and is also involved with climate justice research and action.
Here are nineteen mainstream newspaper articles that are related to COAT's campaign to oppose CPP investments in war industries and Israeli Apartheid (Clipped from newspapers.com by Richard Sanders.) Here are few articles other articles by Richard Sanders (not in Press for Conversion!) about CPP investments. CPP: Making a killing! Holding stock in war profiteers and Canada’s peace mythology Canadian Dimension, Summer 2017 Canada Pension Plan invests $1.5 Billion in Companies which Supply Israel’s Military, Police and Prisons Centre for Research on Globalisation, April 23, 2012 Killer Pensions: Pension funds force Canadians to invest in war industries CCPA Monitor, July 1, 2012 COAT's campaign against CPP investment's in Israeli Apartheid Petition: Stop CPP investments supporting Israel’s military, police, prisons COAT's online petition had almost 1400 signatories. Click above to see the petition and read the signers comments. CPPIB Meetings Every two years the CPP Investment Board holds public meeting in provincial capitals, and online. These meetings are announced only ten before they occur. People can't stand up and ask questions directly. They write down questions, submit them and then the CPPIB decides which it will ones it will answer. Their answers are brief and usually involve delivering their basic message which is that they are very ethical and will invest in anything that is legal. In 2012 and 2016, COAT encouraged supporters to attend these meetings in order to try to raise embarrassing issues about CPP investments in: (1) the world's largest weapons manufacturers and (2) companies profiting from Israeli Apartheid. As a result, peace, antiwar and human rights activists in several cities attended CPPIB meetings where they were able to ask embarrassing questions. For example, here is a report about the CPPIB's 2012 meeting in Victoria BC COAT Report Sparks Question about Israeli Military Attack against Aid Ship to Gaza COAT's CPP Slide Show presented in Winnipeg 2017
Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade Press for Conversion!

Canada Pension Plan

COAT's campaign against CPP investment's in Israeli Apartheid Petition: Stop CPP investments supporting Israel’s military, police, prisons

COAT's campaign against CPP investment's in Israeli Apartheid

Petition: Stop CPP investments supporting Israel’s military, police, prisons