FW: Tell Trudeau: Privatization is a Dead End

[Brenda Thompson]

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Friends of Public Services
http://www.publicservices.ca/

Here's the full petition:

Tell Trudeau: Privatization is a Dead End

To Justin Trudeau and senior Liberal advisors:
Public Private Partnerships mean that we pay more and get less. We demand that you renounce privatization and support efficient, quality public services instead.
 

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Justin Trudeau's embrace of privatization could cost taxpayers billions and lead to further cuts to services like health care, education and Canada Post, among others. 

P3s: pay more, get less

Trudeau in a meeting with health care privatization pioneer Philippe Couillard.

Justin Trudeau announced last year that he is a major supporter of Public-Private Partnerships (P3s), a method of using private financing for public projects like highways, hospitals and schools. In case after case, we've seen P3 projects generate massive cost overruns and fail completely. Billions of taxpayer dollars have lined the pockets of private financiers.
In Public-Private Partnerships, taxpayers take on the risk while the private sector partners reap the rewards. If something goes wrong, taxpayers pick up the tab. If things go right, the public still pays hundreds of millions more. 
Some examples:
• Ontario’s Auditor-General reported that a P3 hospital in Brampton cost $200 million more than it would have if it was publicly financed and built
• A P3 project at a Quebec University doubled in cost from $200 million to $400 million

• BC's Sea to Sky highway would have cost $220 million less if it had been publicly owned and operated

Liberal double-talk on Canada Post

Trudeau has never said that Liberals will reverse cuts to door to door delivery, and the Liberals have not ruled out the privatization of Canada Post. The Liberal Party has enjoyed appearing to oppose cuts to Canada Post’s door to door delivery, which many see as a prelude to privatization. Some Liberal candidates have been telling their constituents that they will reverse the cuts, while others are saying they will not.
Enough is enough: it's time for Liberals to take a clear position. Either promise to reverse the cuts or stop saying you will.

Liberal governments unleashed a wave of cuts and privatization

When Chretien's Liberals defeated Mulroney's Progressive Conservatives in 1993, they campaigned on the "red book", a series of promises for modest social spending, environmental reform and economic growth. Once in power, the party took a 180-degree turn. They went on to eliminate 40% of federal program funding and cut $4 billion from transfers to provinces in the name of "slaying the deficit".
The cuts slowed economic growth by a whopping 3.5 per cent and threw Canada’s health care system into crisis. Hospital beds were reduced, and many doctors went south. The result is creeping privatization and a two-tier system: better care for the rich, longer wait times and fewer beds for everyone else.
To be credible, the Liberals have to make a clear break with their past.

The austerity agenda

Paul Martin’s austerity cuts were unnecessary. A CIBC Wood Gundy report found that without the cuts, stronger economic growth fuelled by well-paying jobs would have cut the deficit by just as much. So why did they do it? Because corporate elites can get more control and make higher profits through privatization and cuts to services. (Find out more at www.uniteagainstausterity.ca.)
The group that has had the most success pushing the austerity agenda is the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. Today, their President and CEO is former Liberal Cabinet Minister and leadership Candidate John Manley.
This makes it even more urgent for the Liberal party to reject the policies their friend and former colleague is promoting.

Trudeau's Liberals must break with privatization and the austerity agenda.

Sign today to send Justin Trudeau and his Liberal advisors a clear message.

 

Sign here: http://www.publicservices.ca/trudeau_privatization?recruiter_id=24220

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[Eric Mills]

too late?

http://www.publicservices.ca/news2015_privatization_trudeau_ouster_papineau

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[Brenda Thompson]

No I think it is even more timely, now that the Liberals won the election.

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Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 05:22:12 -0400
Subject: Re: FW: Tell Trudeau: Privatization is a Dead End
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