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Maude Barlow

"This has been an outrageous display of arrogance, of corporate control, of control by the World Bank," said Maude Barlow, leader of the Council of Canadians.

"We're here to say that if these people succeed in making water a commodity to be sold on the open market, protected by global trade agreements like the WTO (World Trade Organization), there will be millions and millions of people who will die," Barlow said.

Canadians are disturbed by the fact that all discussions and decisions regarding the Information Highway have been carried out without any attempt to involve the public in the debate," said Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians. "The decisions being made will profoundly affect all Canadians. This is scandalous behaviour for a government which was elected on a promis to end the practice of creating public policy behind closed doors," she said.

Paul Workman reports for CBC TV CBC NEWS ONLINE COVERAGE: CLIP: CBC News Online's Bob Sudeyko talks with Sarah Miller of the Canadian Environmental Law Association about the growing demand for Canadian Water. [Download Players]

Thursday, March 23, 2000 Conference wants to put a price on water

May 18, 2000 "Don't shut the tap on private-sector water" The Globe and Mail

On the sale of our Water Wed911water [see CBC on Water]

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American-style health care is coming to Canada. With falling federal transfer payments for Medicare, some provincial governments are turning to private insurers and health care organizations to help re-structure provincial health care. Many of these organizations are largely American for-profit companies. (Maude Barlow and Bruce Campbell, Canadian Forum, November 1995 ; Daniel Tatroff, Our Times, May/June 1995)

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The next development was that Maude Barlow and John Turner started making accusations against Mulroney: that he was selling out the country, that our social security programs were in jeopardy etc. etc.

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Lewis and the NDP of the day believed that the average Canadian was abused and manipulated by corporations who also received handouts and favours from government. Maude Barlow subscribes to the same general theory repackaged for the '90s, believing that there is the need for government to intervene in the marketplace to limit the power of transnational companies (TNC'S) and to ensure the interests of the average Canadian are protected so as to preserve the values that make us truly Canadian. In this context of mistrust, she believes that business/education partnerships must be approached very carefully as the profit motive of the private sector could lead to lower quality education and the manipulation of our children by TNCs through in-school television and other profit driven actions.

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Should governments have more or less control over the knowledge workers who are driving our economy forward? Maude Barlow believes there should be more control. I disagree. I think we need less control and more flexibility and innovation in overnment/industry partnerships. The corporate welfare bums may have existed in the early 1970s. The TNCs of the 1990s are characterised by flat organizations where employees are empowered to make their own decisions. Like most people, they are trying to understand and manage change that is increasingly dictated by the customer. Quality and price drive most marketplaces. They are not controlled by TNCs who conspire against the marketplace.

By Chris Lowe

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But Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians was disturbed by Buchanan's words. "We have a country here, thank you very much. If he wants us to respect the rights of Americans he should damn well respect the rights of other people around the world."

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It's Conrad Black 1, Maude Barlow 0 in the court fight to undo Black's recent takeover of the Southam newspaper chain. The Council of Canadians which Barlow heads, argues that the federal decision allowing the takeover was unconstitutional because it failed to take concentration of editorial content into account. But the court ducked the constitutional question and ruled only that the council had missed the deadline for appealing the original decision. Now the council says it will try to appeal that ruling. Meanwhile, Black continues to control more than half the daily newspapers in Canada.

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Systemhouse established itself in the computer industry as a systems integrator, selling information technology and consulting services to major corporations and the government.
Many Canadians, including Maude Barlow of the Council of Canadians, are concerned by the recent spate of takeovers. Says Barlow: "This latest takeover is distressing. We've seen a rash of them and they're not going to stop now."

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A documentary film which focuses on Maude Barlow, national spokeswoman for the Council of Canadians, a citizens' rights group. Through giving voice to Ms. Barlow's ideas, this production shows how current government policy is eroding what Canadians consider a "just society." As well as Barlow's ideas, the film looks at Canadian women as they illustrate through personal testimony what they are losing and stand to lose as a result of cutbacks to social programs. Part of the Talking Women series. NFB 56 minutes,16mm, colour

MAI and the OECD

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