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Interest groups jockeying for leaders' attention
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Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger (centre) takes leaders on stroll along the shores of Hudson Bay Wednesday.
LABOUR and environmental groups will jockey to get the attention of Canada's provincial and territorial leaders today as the leaders gather in Winnipeg to discuss issues ranging from the ongoing economic recovery to protection of the nation's water resources.
Climate Action Network Canada wants the provinces to take a bigger leadership role to reduce emissions and promote wider use of clean energy, including the creation of "a provincial-territorial climate action secretariat" to foster inter-provincial collaboration on climate change.
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"The creation of this institutional capacity is a prerequisite to the kind of provincial collaboration and leadership that Canadians need," Climate Action Network executive director Graham Saul said in a statement.
The Climate Action Network, a coalition of national and regional environmental groups, will release a report card today tracking the five worst and five best actions on climate change by each province and territory.
Gaile Whelan-Enns, director of Manitoba Wildlands, said a number of rallies are planned at the Hotel Fort Garry where the premiers meet until Friday afternoon.
One is a rally sponsored by the Manitoba Federation of Labour, Canadian Labour Congress and other groups to push for changes to Canada's public pension system.
"It is key that the premiers hear our message and commit to taking effective action to convince the Harper Conservatives that this is the right thing to do and the right time to do it is now," MFL president Kevin Rebeck said.
Also Wednesday, a coalition of poverty activists asked the country's premiers to ramp up the fight to eradicate poverty in Canada. Representatives from business and community groups across Canada, as well as provincial and federal politicians, came together for a roundtable in Winnipeg to discuss a strategy to eradicate poverty.
They will giver the premiers a draft of their comprehensive anti-poverty strategy, asking the premiers to create a working group on poverty reduction, which will report back at the council's meeting next year, and to pressure the federal government to do their part to reduce poverty in Canada, said Sid Frankel, roundtable organizer.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition August 5, 2010 A4
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