We need public service providers guided by a commitment to ensure Canadians have the resources, programs and support we need to be healthy, secure members of society, not service providers motivated by the bottom line. Because this is part of a broader struggle. This struggle started long before the Battle of Seattle. It is a struggle centuries old for self-rule, social and economic justice, for democracy. Quebec city is about more than exercising our democratic rights to freedom of expression and assembly.
Democracy is about self-rule.
It's about people participating in the political activity and decisions that affect our lives. It's recognizing that neither politicians nor a faceless market drive society. It is people our work and ideas who create the kinds of worlds we live in. Earlier this month, Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew bragged that Canada had taken the lead in getting agreement to release the draft text of the treaty. Pettigrew and his fellow globalizers have forgotten they are responsible to the citizenry.