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Civil Society participation in the Summit of the Americas APPENDIX: Events supported by the Government of Canada in connection with the Summit of the Americas Symposium on Hemispheric Integration and Democracy in the Americas: Citizenship, Participation, Accountability (Windsor, June 3-5, 2000) Organizer: Rights and Democracy Web site Contact: Nancy Thede Tel.: (514) 283-6073 Fax: (514) 283-3792 E-mail: nthede@ichrdd.ca Final consultation meeting with 837 hemispheric civil society organizations (Miami, January 18-20, 2001) Organizer: Corporacion Participa (Chile), Esquel Foundation (U.S.), FOCAL (Canada) Contact: Nobina Robinson Web site Tel.: (613) 562-0005, ext. 234 Fax: (613) 562-2525 E-mail: robinson@focal.ca List of participantsPDF Recommendations ReportPDF Address and discussion with the Minister of International Trade: Summit of the Americas: Socio-political and Cultural Issues (Quebec City, February 2) Organizer: Chaire publique de l'Association des étudiantes et des étudiants de l'université Laval inscrits aux études supérieures (AELIÉS) Contact: Étienne LaBillois Tel.: (418) 656-7190 Fax: (418) 656-2069
Youth Forum: the Honourable Maria Minna, Minister for International Cooperatione |
Youth Forum of the Americas (Quebec City, March 5-11) Organizer: Canadian Students Commission Web site Contact: Barbara McIntosh Tel.: (416) 597-8297 Fax: (416) 597-0661 E-mail: barb@tgmag.ca Symposium on governance and public administration in the Americas (Quebec City, March 18-22) Organizer: École nationale d'Administration publique Web site Contact: Paul-André Comeau Tel.: (514) 849-3989 Fax: (514) 849-3369 E-mail: paul-andre_comeau@enap.uquebec.ca
AmeriContact 2001 (Quebec City, April 3-5, 2001) Organizer: Chambre de commerce et d'industrie du Québec métropolitain Contact: Lawrence Cannon Tel.: (418) 692-0525 Fax: (418) 694-2286 E-mail: americontact@cciqm.qc.ca Writers of the Americas' Summit: Cultural inter-breeding and search of identity (Quebec City, April 12-17, 2001) Web site Organizer: Salon international du livre de Québec Contact: Johanne Mongeon Tel.: (418) 692-0010 Fax: (418) 692-0029 E-mail: info@silq.org La Conférence de Montréal: Free Trade in the Americas: Challenges and Perspectives (Montreal, April 17-20) Web site Contact: Sylvia Généreux Tel.: (514) 283-5142 Fax: (514) 283-6680 E-mail: s.genereux@conferencedemontreal.com Hemispheric Trade and Sustainability Symposium (Quebec City, April 17-19) Organizer: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) and the World Conservation Union (IUCN), in collaboration with Pierre-Marc Johnson Contact: Karel Mayrand Tel.: (514) 287-9704 Fax: (514) 287-9057 E-mail: karel.mayrand@sympatico.ca Second People's Summit of the Americas (Quebec City, April 17-20) Organizer: Hemispheric Social Alliance, represented in Canada by Common Frontiers and the Réseau québécois sur l'intégration continentale (RQIC) Contact: Tanya Vachon Tel.: (514) 982-6606, ext. 2229 Fax: (514) 982-6122 E-mail: tania@alternatives-action.org Conference on Inter-American Cooperation Beyond Free Trade (Quebec City, April 17-19) Organizer: Institut québécois des hautes études internationales, Laval University Contact: Lili Réhel Web site Tel.: (418) 656-7771 Fax: (418) 656-3634 E-mail: sommet2001@hei.ulaval.ca Youth Forum: Animated art mural representing globalization |
Youth Forum: the Honourable Maria Minna, Minister for International Cooperation, and participants |
CANADIAN CENTRE FOR FOREIGN POLICY DEVELOPMENT: As well, the Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development has periodically assembled NGOs, experts, academics, union activists, business people, parliamentarians and the media from across the country over the last two years to contribute to the discussion on the development of Canada's hemispheric foreign policy. The CCFPD has organized nine roundtables: - Helping to Shape a Canadian Discussion/Policy Development on the Americas (Calgary, March 17, 1999) broadcast on the Internet in real time and archived. (organized with Design E Lab, the McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology at the University of Toronto, and the Calgary Centre for Performing Arts)
- Democratization in the Americas (Halifax, July 9, 1999)
- Initiatives for Democracy Education in the Americas: Education and the Free Trade Area of the Americas, IDEA (Vancouver, July 13, 1999)
- Americas: Priorities, Plans and Activities (Ottawa, August 30, 1999)
- Governance, Civil Society and the Americas (Victoria, January 28, 2000)
- Threats to Democracy in the Americas, FOCAL, University of British Columbia (Vancouver, March 3-4, 2000)
- Canada, Indigenous Peoples and the Hemisphere (Winnipeg, 23 mars 2000)
- Towards Windsor (Ottawa, April 26, 2000)
- Organization of American States and Small Arms Roundtable (Ottawa, April 28, 2000)
The CCFPD also provided funding for two articles: James Rochlin, Canada and Hemispheric Narcotrafficking (Fall 1999); Joël Monfils, Martin Roy, Gordon Mace and Jean-Philippe Thérien, Le Canada et la ZLÉA (Fall 1999). Last update: 2001/04/18 ajr
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