Organization:
Location: across Canada
We start from the premise that Canada is facing the deepest crisis in recent
memory.
The Truth and Reconciliation
Commission has acknowledged shocking details about
the violence of Canada’s near past. Deepening poverty and inequality are a scar
on the country’s present. And Canada’s record on climate change is a crime
against humanity’s future.
These facts are all the more jarring because they depart so dramatically from
our stated values: respect for Indigenous rights, internationalism, human
rights, diversity, and environmental stewardship.
Canada is not this place today — but it could be.
We could live in a country powered entirely by renewable energy, woven together
by accessible public transit, in which the jobs and opportunities of this
transition are designed to systematically eliminate racial and gender
inequality. Caring for one another and caring for the planet could be the
economy’s fastest growing sectors. Many more people could have higher wage jobs
with fewer work hours, leaving us ample time to enjoy our loved ones and
flourish in our communities.
Read more and sign the leap manifesto:
https://leapmanifesto.org/
Initiating Organizations: 350.org | Alternatives | Black Lives Matter – Toronto |
Canada Youth Climate Coalition | Canadian Union of Postal Workers | Catherine
Donnelly Foundation | Citizens for Public Justice | Coule Pas Chez Nous |
Council of Canadians | CUPE Ontario | David Suzuki Foundation | Defenders of
the Land | Ecology Action Centre | Food Secure Canada | Forest Ethics |
Greenpeace Canada | Idle No More | Kairos | LUSH Fresh Handmade Cosmetics |
Mining Watch | No One Is Illegal – Vancouver Coast Salish Territories | Ontario
Coalition Against Poverty | Oxfam Canada | Polaris Institute | Public Service
Alliance of Canada | Sierra Club Canada Foundation | The ETC Group | This
Changes Everything | Toronto York Region Labour Council
