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The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has just announced the details of its biennial Public Meetings to be held in nine provinces on 11 June 2012.
The CPPIB are the people who make decisions about what corporations our retirement savings are invested in. They should also be held accountable and asked to publicly justify their decisions.
However, their public meetings are only held once every two years. So it's a bit of a rare opportunity to take advantage of when we can.
The times and places of their nine upcoming public meetings have just been listed on the CPPIB website:
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CITY/PROV.
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EVENT TIME
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LOCATION
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ROOM
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| Charlottetown, PEI |
2:00pm - 3:30pm
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Delta Prince Edward Hotel
18 Queen Street |
Elfin Pekeha Room |
| Edmonton, AB |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Westin Hotel
10135 100th Street |
Strathcona Room |
| Fredericton, NB |
2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Crowne Plaza Fredericton
Lord Beaverbrook
659 Queen St |
Petitcodiac Room |
| Halifax, NS |
2:00pm - 3:30pm |
Delta Barrington Halifax
1990 Barrington Street |
Bluenose Ballroom |
| London, ON |
1:00pm - 2:30pm |
London Hilton
300 King Street |
Queen Victoria Room |
| Regina, SK |
11:00am - 12:30pm |
Delta Regina Hotel
1919 Saskatchewan Drive |
Umbia Room |
| St. John's, NFLD |
2:30pm - 4:00pm |
Sheraton Hotel Newfoundland
115 Cavendish Square |
Garrison Signal Room |
| Victoria, BC |
10:00am - 11:30am |
Victoria Comfort Hotel & Conference Centre
3020 Blanshard Street |
Topaz Room |
| Winnipeg, MB |
12:00pm - 1:30pm |
Ft Garry Hotel
222 Broadway |
Crystal Room |
Webcast viewers of these meetings can also submit questions but they need to register in advance.
The Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade (COAT) started a petition urging the CPPIB to divest from companies that supply military/police/surveillance/prison-related technology and/or services that aid Israel's wars, its military occupation, the destruction of tens of thousands of Palestinian homes and orchards, and the building of checkpoints and the illegal separation wall, etc.
Almost 1000 have signed our petition so far.
If you haven't already done so already, please take a minute to sign now.
Petition signatories who live in the nine cities where the CPP meetings will be held have been notified and organisations that have officially endorsed COAT's petition* have been asked to tell their contacts:
Barnard-Boecker Centre Foundation
Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Halifax Peace Coalition
Independent Jewish Voices Canada
Palestinian Canadian Congress
Science for Peace
Questions/Comments for the CPP meetings
People could ask general questions about the $1.4 billion that the CPP has invested in 66 companies that are complicit in supplying military/police/surveillance/prison-related technology and/or services to aid Israel's wars, its military occupation, the destruction of Palestinian homes and orchards, and the building of checkpoints and the illegal separation wall, etc.
Or, people could focus on one specific company that the CPP invests in. There are detailed articles dealing with 30+ such companies in the latest issue of COAT's Press For Conversion magazine.
Others may want to ask those in charge of the CPP why our retirement savings have been invested in many of the...
Companies Building F-35 warplanes
World's Largest War Industries, 2010
World's Largest War Industries, prior to 2010
Anything that you can do to help spread the word about the CPPIB meetings, or the COAT petition, would be much appreciated. |
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