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• Our First Year

The Chapter's First Year – 2001

Prior to the formation of the Peterborough-Kawarthas chapter, many local citizens belonged to the Council of Canadians and campaigned against the MAI (Multilateral Agreement on Investment); for seniors' public pensions; against bank mergers; to rid Bovine Growth Hormone; for Medicare; to eliminate child poverty; to prevent water from becoming a commodity; in opposition to the WTO (World Trade Organization), NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement) and corporate globalization; for mandatory labelling of any product with genetically engineered ingredients; and for science for the public good.

January

• recruited local activists for a chapter steering committee

February

• Feburary 6th, met with Ontario Regional Organizer, Brent Patterson, to officially set up a chapter

April

• Spring Canadian Perspectives listed us as a chapter with Roy Brady as contact person
• April 19-22, several members travelled to Quebec City to protest against the Quebec Summit and to participate in the People's Summit against the FTAA (Free Trade of the Americas)
• April 23, upon return, an emergency meeting with the Peterborough Examiner in attendance was called to help four arrested Peterborough participants, which included one of our members and a teenage son of another member. Also, we challenged the overreaction of the Quebec police at the Summit

May

• May 16, at the founding meeting of our chapter, Tony Clarke, CoC board member and Director of the Polaris Institute, was guest speaker

June

• June 11, the steering committee decided that issues for our next public meeting would be: the deregulation and privatization of electricity in Ontario; international trade and investment treaties; reinventing democracy; proportional representation; the Alternative Budget; Aboriginal Rights and Globalization; privatization and the public sector (UPS tribunal challenge); Dick Beck's water resolution
• June 18, at our second public meeting the following committees were formed:
  • Energy Watch – Dick Beck
  • GATS and Trade – Herb Wiseman
  • Reinventing Democracy – Roy Brady
  • Privatization – Gordon Usher
  • Water – Melanie Sangster
  • Food – Desmond Carabine

August

• August 7 and 29, Steering Committee completed governance and committees and planned the third public meeting

September

• September 20, completed AGM business: chapter representation and two resolutions – Guest Speaker was Belinda Wilson from VOCO (Voices of Central Ontario, acting for the de-amalgamation of the forced amalgamation of 17 municipalities into the City of Kawartha Lakes)

October

• October 26-28, Roy Brady was official chapter representative at the AGM in Red Deer. – See “Citizens' Agenda: Framework for Change” on the national website

November

• November 5, Steering committee identified public health care as the chapter's highest priority
• November 10, CFWTO (Common Front on the World Trade Organization) Caravan arrived in Peterborough to present a message that “A Better World is Possible: Developing Common Security Through Fair Trade” at a public event
• November 12, Alan Borovoy, Chief Counsel for the Canadian Civil Liberties Association, spoke on "What's wrong with Bill-36" (the pending anti-terrorist act)