THIS CORRECTS LOCATION OF FAIR ELECTION ACT RALLY FROM LEGISLATURE TO CITY HALL

The Manitoba Federation of Labour is supporting the Canadian Federation of Students Rally on April 29th at 6 pm in front of Winnipeg City Hall.  It is a rally to oppose the Harper Conservative’s drive to make Canada a less democratic and advancing the Fair Elections Act through the House of Commons and into the Senate.

Harper’s new Unfair Elections Act would:

· make it harder for people to vote.

· disproportionately impact students and youth, Indigenous people, seniors, people on low-­‐incomes, and other groups of people who the Conservatives know are unlikely to vote for them.

· fail to bring to justice the people behind the widespread election fraud in 2011.

· create a new “independent” Commissioner of Canada Elections, who would be accountable not toParliament  but to the Justice Minister.

· actually make it harder to catch perpetrators of election fraud like Pierre Poutine.

· prevent Elections Canada from talking about democracy, including prohibiting: Elections Canada participation in the Student Vote program, a national initiative to increase youth voter turnout by allowing 500,000 students below voting age to vote in a parallel election; publicly discussing (or even researching) how to increase voter turnout.

· prevent Elections Canada from reporting publicly about voter complaints it receives, including about            fraudulent calls.

· stack the electoral deck in Harper’s favour in a variety of additional ways, including changing the rules governing fundraising and election spending on robocalls companies.

We invite all to join CFS  in a show of solidarity against the Harper Government’s attack on democracy!