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Almost 200 organizations and thousands more
individuals across Canada are demanding the
Federal government end its war in Afghanistan
and redirect funds from record-high military
spending to peace, including affordable
housing. This broad new alliance ranges from
Canada's largest civil society organizations
to grassroots community groups, and is
growing daily. (Sign now:
www.HousingNotWar.ca)
300,000 people experience homelessness
annually in Canada, the only industrialized
country with no national housing program. The
UN recently reaffirmed the "devastating
impact of this national crisis...
including a large number of deaths" from
homelessness during Canada's worst housing
shortage since the Great Depression.
Meanwhile, skyrocketing military spending is
already at the highest level since WWII, and
the government fights a war devastating some
of the poorest people in the world in
Afghanistan -- a war most people in Canada
oppose, but Canadian Generals predict could
last decades. The Toronto Disaster Relief
Committee (TDRC) and the Canadian Peace
Alliance (CPA) invite you to join our demands
for peace and justice at home and
abroad, sign the Housing Not War Declaration:
www.HousingNotWar.ca.
CURRENT FACTS:
-- Military: $18.2 billion/year // highest
since WWII // 13th highest in the World //
8.5% of Federal budget // $100 million per
month to fight the war in Afghanistan
-- Housing: $2 billion/year // just 1% of
Federal budget // The ONLY industrialized
country with NO national program // Worst
housing shortage since Great Depression
-- Homelessness: 300,000 people annually //
Very high death rate (people die every week)
// Millions more in 'core housing need',
enduring poor or insecure housing.
For more info, contact TORONTO DISASTER
RELIEF COMMITTEE (TDRC):
housingnotwar@tdrc.net | 416-599-8372 |
www.HousingNotWar.ca
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