• You can make your views known to the Prime Minister, your M.P. and your local media.

• Here is what the Canadian government could do:

• Take a leadership role in the World Trade Organization and elsewhere to include environmental safeguards in trade policies;

• Start focusing on long term economic and social development, and stop pursuing short term, export-led growth

• Use the opportunity of the four year review of NAFTA to do a serious, honest evaluation of free trade’s impact;

• promote social and environmental issues in the negotiations for the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) agreement.

Learn more about trade and the environment

• CELA has an extensive website including information on Trade and on Ecological Footprint analysis at http://www.web.net/cela/.

• West Coast Environmental Law is a good source too at http://www.wcel.org/international/trade.

• Friends of the Earth USA and FOE International both do excellent work on trade and environment . You can start from their website at http://www.foe.org/

• Contact the Canadian Labour Congress Environment Department at dbennett@clc-ctc.ca.

Develop international links and share approaches with other environmental groups

• At the Peoples’ Summit in Santiago, Chile, the Environmental Forum produced a host of creative ideas. You can read them on the web at http://members.tripod.com/~redchile/.

• Contact CELA or Common Frontiers for more information on how to get involved