The Hit List

Dennis Gruending has compiled a list of organizations that the Harper government has, in one way or another, put the boots to:

Organizations/ watchdogs whose staff have been fired, forced out, publicly maligned, or who have resigned in protest:

· Canada Firearms Program (Chief Supt. Marty Cheliak, Director General)

· Canadian Wheat Board (Adran Measner, President and CEO)

· Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (Linda Keen, chair)

· Foreign Affairs (Richard Colvin, diplomat)

· Military Police Complaints Commission (head, Peter Tinsley)

· Ombudsman for the Department of National Defence and the Canadian Forces (Yves Coté)

· Parliamentary Budget Officer (Kevin Page) (funding cut)

· RCMP Police Complaints Commission (Paul Kennedy, chair)

· Rights & Democracy (International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development – Rémy Beauregard, President)

· Statistics Canada (Munir Sheikh, Deputy Minister)

· Veterans Ombudsman (Col. Pat Stogran)

· Victims of Crime, Ombudsman (Steve Sullivan)

Community organizations, NGOs and research bodies reported to have
been cut or defunded [see note 1 below]

· Action travail des femmes

· Afghan Association of Ontario, Canada Toronto

· Alberta Network of Immigrant Women

· Alternatives (Quebec)

· Association féminine d’éducation et d’action sociale (AFEAS)

· Bloor Information and Life Skills Centre[2]

· Brampton Neighbourhood Services (Ontario) [3]

· Canadian Arab Federation

· Canadian Child Care Federation

· Canadian Council for International Cooperation

· Canadian Council on Learning

· Canadian Council on Social Development

· Canadian Heritage Centre for Research and Information on Canada

· Canadian International Development Agency, Office of Democratic Governance[4]

· Canadian Labour Business Centre

· Canada Policy Research Networks

· Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women

· Canada School of Public Service

· Canadian Teachers’ Federation International program
· Canadian Volunteerism Initiative

· Centre de documentation sur l’éducation des adultes et la condition feminine

· Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA)

· Centre for Spanish Speaking Peoples (Toronto

· Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada

· Childcare Resource and Research Unit, Specialink

· Climate Action Network

· Community Access Program, internet access for communities at libraries, post offices, community centres

· Community Action Resource Centre (CARC)

· Conseil d’intervention pour l’accès des femmes au travail (CIAFT)

· Court Challenges Program (except language rights cases and legacy cases)

· Davenport-Perth Neighbourhood Centre Toronto: (Funding cut by CIC in December 2010).

· Democracy Council[5]

· Department of Foreign Affairs, Democracy Unit[6]

· Elspeth Heyworth Centre for Women Toronto: (Funding cut by CIC in December 2010).

· Environment: Youth International Internship Program

· Eritrean Canadian Community Centre of Metropolitan Toronto (Funding cut by CIC in December 2010)

· Feminists for Just and Equitable Public Policy (FemJEPP) in Nova Scotia

· First Nations Child and Family Caring Society

· First Nations and Inuit Tobacco Control Program

· Forum of Federations

· Global Environmental Monitoring System

· HRD Adult Learning and Literacy programs

· HRD Youth Employment Programs

· Hamilton’s Settlement and Integration Services Organization (Ontario) [7]

· Immigrant settlement programs

· Inter-Cultural Neighbourhood Social Services (Peel)[8]

· International Planned Parenthood Federation

· Kairos[9]

· Law Reform Commission of Canada

· Mada Al-Carmel Arab Centre

· Marie Stopes International, a maternal health agency – has received only a promise of “conditional funding IF it avoids any and all connection with abortion.

· MATCH International

· National association of Women and the Law (NAWL)

· Native Women’s Association of Canada

· New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity

· Northwood Neighbourhood Services (Toronto: (Funding cut by CIC in December 2010).

· Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses (OAITH)

· Ontario Association of Transitional Housing (OAITH)

· Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care

· Pride Toronto

· Réseau des Tables régionales de groupes de femmes du Québec

· Riverdale Women’s Centre in Toronto

· Sierra Club of BC

· Sisters in Spirit

· Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

· South Asian Women’s Centre[10]

· Status of Women (mandate also changed to exclude “gender equality and political justice” and to ban all advocacy, policy research and lobbying

. Tropicana Community Services

· Womanspace Resource Centre (Lethbridge, Alberta)

· Women’s Innovative Justice Initiative – Nova Scotia

· Workplace Equity/Employment Equity Program

· York-Weston Community Services Centre Toronto

And the funny thing is, the exercise hasn't saved them a penny.