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“Fund Healthcare, Not Warfare” Ottawa Bus Tour
Join our “Fund Healthcare, Not Warfare” Ottawa Bus Tour to call for public money to support healthcare, not conflict. Together, we’ll travel around Ottawa and learn more about how the fight for public healthcare and against militarism are intertwined. Space is limited, so get your ticket now!
This 90-minute bus tour, organized by the Council of Canadians and the Shut Down CANSEC campaign, will include brief stops at Ottawa-area institutions that are profiting from the unprecedented billions being spent on weapons systems, like the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI), Lockheed Martin, and the CANSEC “defence, security and emerging technology” arms show at the EY Centre.
We’ll also hear from health care workers, federal civil servants and others who are facing the brunt of budget cuts to made to pay for this agenda of corporate welfare-through-warfare, at locations like Health Canada, the Public Health Agency of Canada, and the Ottawa Hospital.
Speakers on this bus tour will include Amy Roberts, a Registered Nurse and the president of the Ontario Nurses Association Local 83, which represents nurses at the Ottawa Hospital, Nik Barry-Shaw, trade and privatization campaigner for the Council of Canadians and Brent Patterson of Peace Brigades International and the Shut Down CANSEC campaign.
The tour is endorsed by the Ottawa Health Coalition, the Canadian Friends Service Committee and the Ottawa chapter of the Council of Canadians.
Register to reserve your seat, get schedule details, and receive updates before departure.