Talk:Council of Canadians

Once again, User:Michaelm has visited an article as part of his campaign to paint everything that he can as being social democratic. The org's website (( is )Redundant --Richard416282 20:33, 2 May 2006 (UTC) ) makes it clear that it is left-wing, but makes no mention of being social democratic. Its Vision Statement talks about popular sovereignty and democracy without ever mentioning social democracy. To describe it as social democratic is to assign a label that the org has not given itself. Searches on the website's search engine for "social democrat", "social democracy" and "social democratic" drew 0 responses. None at all. Zip. Zilch. Nada. The big bagel. As far as being linked to the NDP, this is directly contradicted by the self-description on the website as being "strictly non-partisan". Kevintoronto 14:55, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Double article
Hi, I was unable to find the Council’s page on here a while ago so I started one under: “The Council of Canadians”. We should obviously merge the two pages, I’ll look into doing it. The page I started doesn’t have much, mainly just headings to be filled in but there are some useful things. I wrote much of it off the top of my head. Harris77 20:11, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Ok, i've moved what i consider to be the "good" stuff from my page. I feel this page needs a lot of work. I will slowly fill in the campaign articles so please leave them. Could someone put in the "redirect" function from the other page. So when people search "the C/o/C" it'll come here. Thanks Harris77 20:19, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

Broken weblink - Toronto Chapter
Broken weblink detected 2006-05-01. Seeking corrections / modifications until page is fixed. Currently is still "Under construction from web hosting Service" Richard416282 20:25, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

From Negativism to something positive
A previous editor wrote:

"The group is strongly opposed to most forms of increased social, economic, and political integration with the United States, especially on matters such as free trade and the Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars"). The Council was against the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, and the North American Free Trade Agreement, "

-Revised opening page from a NEGATIVE view to a POSITIVE view. Richard416282 20:47, 2 May 2006 (UTC)

Unexplained edits
edited the article to remove the "non-partisan" label from the opening sentance, as well as changing the opening of the second paragraph from "protect Canadian independence by promoting" to just "promote". Please explain why these edits should be made on the article (as the pre-edit statements do seem accurate to me). Thanks. —GrantNeufeld 20:38, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

pov tag
Phrases like "so-called “seniors’ benefit,” which would have robbed seniors of millions of dollars in retirement income," are hardly neutral, are they? Either this article should be revised, or the {pov} tag should be added. If I don't hear any objections and/or fixes to the article in a day or two, I'll probably add the tag. (I'm not familiar enough with Canadian politics to fix the neutrality issues on my own) --Jaysweet 15:37, 4 August 2006 (UTC)

Neutrality
Whether one supports the Council's work or not, this is an encyclopedia, not free ad space. Escheffel 03:52, 5 September 2006 (UTC)