Make Poverty History - Dear Mr. Goodale....

I recieved this email today. Give it a read through, and if you feel that you would like to participate in the actions to Make Poverty History, then just copy the letter that follows, into an email, and send it out. Every little bit helps.

Blessings.

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Thank you for your actions to Make Poverty History.

Today we are asking you to please send a letter to Minister of Finance Ralph Goodale, with a copy to Canada’s representatives to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund prior to their upcoming annual meetings. Urge them to make every effort to ensure that the G8 DebtCancellation proposal is strengthened, not weakened, so the needs of the world’s poorest people are not ignored.

Please send the following letter, adapt it or draft your own, to:

Ralph Goodale, Minister of Finance at

Financergoodale@fin.gc.ca

Please CC: Marcel Massé, Canadian Executive Director at the WorldBank at

mmasse@worldbank.org

Kevin Lynch, Canadian Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund at

klynch@imf.org

Thank you for helping Make Poverty History!
Liz Bernstein and the Make Poverty History team
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FROM: _________

TO:The Honorable Ralph Goodale, Minister of Finance

Financergoodale@fin.gc.ca

CC: Marcel Massé,
Canadian Executive Director at the World Bank
mmasse@worldbank.org

Kevin Lynch,
Canadian Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund
klynch@imf.org

SUBJECT: Make Poverty History
IMPORTANCE: Highest

Dear Mr. Goodale,

I am writing to you to call on you as Canada’s representatives to the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) to make everyeffort in the coming weeks to ensure that the G8 Debt Cancellation proposal is strengthened, not weakened.

Canada has played a leadership role in the past on debt cancellation issues. We urge you to play this leadership role at the upcoming meetings of the World Bank and IMF and push for a strengthening of the G8 debt deal when it goes for approval by the boards of these institutions this week.

To ensure that poor countries no longer face the crushing burden of their debts, we call on you and the Government of Canada to lead an international movement to:

§ EXTEND the agreement for 100% cancellation of the debts owed to multilateral financial institutions to all impoverished countries that need debt cancellation in order to meet the Millennium Development Goals.

§ ENSURE that countries are free to implement their own national development strategies by ending IMF and World Bank Structural Adjustment Programs.

Now is the moment for bold action. We strongly urge you to seize this moment and play a role that I and other Canadian supporters of the Make Poverty History campaign would be proud of.

Sincerely,