No matter where you live…

Details: Published on Monday, 29 May 2017 02:15; Written by editor

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Did you know that no matter where you live in Canada, Democracy Watch is helping protect you and your family from abuse by big businesses and governments?

Just since January, Democracy Watch has been in the national news, and in the news in every province and territory, more than 500 times!

Here are some examples of the things Democracy Watch is trying to protect you and your family from:

As CBC reported, Democracy Watch is pushing for key changes to stop gouging and require fair service to everyone across Canada from Canada’s big banks – click here for details;
Maclean’s magazine published Democracy Watch’s call for key democracy reforms in B.C. (reforms that are needed across Canada) – click here to see details;
the Regina Leader-Post covered Democracy Watch’s call for Premier Brad Wall’s offer of public money and support to oil companies he is invested in to be made illegal – click here for details;
as the Vancouver Sun reported in B.C., and the CBC in Ottawa, and in Saskatchewan, and in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the Winnipeg Free Press reported, Democracy Watch is leading the campaign across Canada for changes to stop big businesses, unions and wealthy individuals from making big donations that buy favours from politicians – click here
to see details;
as MetroNews reported from Ottawa, Democracy Watch is also leading the campaign across Canada for strong protections for people who blow the whistle on government and big business wrondoing – click here to see details;
Democracy Watch is also the only group pushing to stop politicians across Canada from appointing their unqualified friends and lapdogs to key government jobs – click here to see details;
and the only group pushing for changes to stop politicians across Canada from lying to you about their election promises and actions and decisions – click here to see details.

To see much more media coverage of Democracy Watch’s campaigns across Canada, click here.

Democracy Watch is the only organization pushing to stop all these abuses of power by politicians and big businesses.

Thank you very much to everyone who has donated recently to support Democracy Watch’s campaigns for changes to help save you tax money. Please help spread the word by clicking here to choose your favourite campaign and share it by email, Facebook or Twitter with your friends.

Democracy Watch’s campaigns are effective – more effective at winning changes for you than any other citizen organization in Canada in the past 20 years.

Democracy Watch has already won more than 110 key changes for you cleaning up politics and banking in Canada – click here to see the list of changes.

Please click here to make a one-time or monthly donation now to help make governments and big businesses serve you better, and to stop their abuses of power across Canada. Even $5 a month will help win more protections for you!

With your ongoing support Democracy Watch can stop even more unethical abuses of power by politicians and big businesses.

Without your support, Democracy Watch can’t stop any unethical abuses of power – it just can’t.

I know you want these abuses stopped – we can do it together.

Democracy Watch doesn’t need your support to pay for a big office or big pay for its staff – because Democracy Watch doesn’t waste your money on those things. In fact, Democracy Watch has the lowest costs of any national citizen advocacy group in Canada.

But Democracy Watch does need your support for:

taking government officials to court when they don’t do their job (Democracy Watch currently has a court case against the federal Ethics Commissioner, and a court case against the B.C. Ethics Commissioner – both for failing to enforce ethics rules);
pursuing ethics complaints (the federal Lobbying Commissioner is currently investigating three complaints that Democracy Watch filed);
letter-writing and petition campaigns (Democracy Watch currently has 15 campaigns sending tens of the thousands of letters to politicians across Canada calling for key changes to stop abuses of power);
and for media campaigns (Democracy Watch has been in the news more than 500 times already in 2017 shining a spotlight on abuses of power by politicians and big businesses).

Please join the thousands of people across Canada supporting Democracy Watch’s campaigns to win changes to protect you and your family from gouging and abuse.

Thank you so much for your support,
Duff, Josephine,
and everyone at Democracy Watch

P.S. Thank you very much again to everyone who has donated recently. If you haven’t donated, even $5 a month will help Democracy Watch stop government and big business abuses of power across Canada that hurt you and your family. Your donation r37