Privatization vs. democracy in Canada
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- Privatization gets failing grade in
Edmonton Public Schools
- We Care media release, 28 May 1997. The results of a 17 month
evaluation of contracting out demonstrated clearly that contractors
could not do the work in Edmonton's Public
Schools. Just as importantly, the independent Evaluators
found that privatization actually interfered with the
Board's ability to meet its obligations under the
School Act.
- CUPE Releases Major Report on
Privatization
- A
Workers' Summary,
25 January
1999. Corporations are gaining control of our public
services at an unprecedented pace. The report documents
for the first time the depth and breadth of the corporate
takeover that's happening in our hospitals, schools,
municipal services, community centres, social services and
utilities. When the dots are connected, a clear picture
emerges of the threat to good jobs, public safety, quality
and accessibility.
- Save EPCOR From Privatization
- From EPCARE, 7 July 1999. In Alberta and Ontario public
utilities, electircal, hydro, are being set up for
privatization. Both provinces have passed legislation
deregulating electricity. This is forcing municipalities
to look at privatization as a quick cash grab.
- Defending Health Care: Unions Lead the
Way
- By Greg McMaster, President, Canadian Union of Postal
Workers, Edmonton, 26 June 2000. Unions have played a
central role in the recent campaign against cutbacks and
privatization of health care, which featured a
broadly-based public movement against Bill 11.
- Experiment in private prison,
Penetanguishene. Enthusiasm for superjail fizzles on
privatization bid
- By Mirko Petricevic, Kitchener Waterloo
Record 13 September 2000. The cottage-country town
hoped to reap a bonanza from 300 well-paid jobs and the
$25 million the jail spends each year, but after
construction began, the plan for the mega-jail was changed
so it would be operated by a private company. When
residents began researching private prisons in the United
States and elsewhere, they didn't like what they
learned.