[Environmentcomm] FW: ACTION ALERT: Send Harper a message about proposed budget cuts to Environment Canada

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Subject: ACTION ALERT: Send Harper a message about proposed budget cuts to = Environment Canada

I hope you will consider tweeting about the budget cuts and sharing the bel= ow action alert.

Andrea Harden-Donahue Energy and Climate Justice Campaigner Council of Canadians (613) 233-4487 ext 240 aharden@canadians.org www.canadians.org/climatejustice Sign up to receive daily news from the Council of Canadians by joining our = ACTIVlist! Click here to a= dd your email address. ACTION ALERT: Send Harper a message about proposed budget cuts to Environm= ent Canada

News agencies are reporting that the Harper government is planning a $222-m= illion or 20% reduction in spending at Environment Canada.

This includes a $141 million cut to climate change and clean air initiative= s, as well as a $19.5-million cut to a federal action plan dealing with con= taminated federal sites, and about $3-million in reductions for compliance = promotion and enforcement for wildlife and pollution.

Meanwhile, in 2010 to 2011, Environment Canada's program activities amount = to just over one billion dollars while National Defence spending is over tw= enty billion. This is further evidence that the Harper government is out of=

According to recent Environics poll, seventy-one percent of Canadians stron= gly or somewhat agreed with the statement, "money spent on wars and the mil= itary would all be better spent on efforts that reduce greenhouse gas emiss= ions and the impacts of climate change." TAKE ACTION!

[cid:image001.jpg@01CBD8D7.7E83DB90]@pmHarper climate action requires more = spending not less! #cdnpoli

[cid:image001.jpg@01CBD8D7.7E83DB90]@pmHarper Environment: $1 billion, Defe= nce: $20 billion #cdnpoli

[cid:image001.jpg@01CBD8D7.7E83DB90]@pmHarper I'll remember cuts to Environ= ment Canada at the polling booth #cdnpoli Send an email to Prime Minister Harper, Environment Minister Peter Kent and=

the leaders of the opposition using our action alert: http://canadians.org/action/2011/env-can-cutbacks.html

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Subject: ACTION A= LERT: Send Harper a message about proposed budget cuts to Environment Canada

Hello,

I hope you will consider tweeting about the budget cuts and sharing=

the below action alert.

Best,

Andrea Harden-Donahue

Energy and Climate Justice Campaigner

Council of Canadians

(613) 233-4487 ext 240

aharden@canadians.org

www.canadians.org/climatejustice

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ACTION ALERT: Send Harper a message about proposed budget cut= s to Environment Canada

News agencies are reporting that the Harper government=

is planning a $222-million or 20% reduction in spending at Environment Canada.=

This includes a $141 million cut to climate change and clean air initiatives, as well as a $19.5-million cut to a federal action plan dealing with contaminated federal sites, = ;and about $3-million in reductions for compliance promotion and enforcement for wildlife and pollution.

Meanwhile, in 2010 to 2011, Environment Canada’s=

program activities amount to just over one billion dollars while National Defe= nce spending is over twenty billion. This is further evidence that the Harper government is out of step with the views of Canadians.

According to recent Environics poll, seventy-one perce= nt of Canadians strongly or somewhat agreed with the statement, "money sp= ent on wars and the military would all be better spent on efforts that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the impacts of climate change.”

TAKE ACTION!<= /font>

Click the following links to tweet or retweet from @CouncilofCD= Ns:

3D"http://canadians.org/images/socialmedia/twitter-t.jpg" @pmHarper climate action requires more spending not less! #cdnpoli

3D"http://canadians.org/images/socialmedia/twitter-t.jpg" @pmHarper Environment: $1 billion, Defence: $20 billion #cdnpoli

3D"http://canadians.org/images/socialmedia/twitter-t.jpg" @pmHarper I’ll remember cuts to Environment Canada at the polling booth #cdnpol= i

Send an email to Prime Minister Harper, Environment Minister Peter = Kent and the leaders of the opposition using our action alert:

= http://canadians.org/action/2011/env-can-cutbacks.html