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[OPIRG-EVENTS] Close Canada's Largest Weapons Fair, April 10, Ottawa
>From: TASC [tasc@pop.web.ca]
>Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 7:26 AM
>Subject: Close Canada's Largest Weapons Fair, April 10, Ottawa
>
>Close Canada's Largest Weapons Fair
>CANSEC 2003, "One-stop shopping across the entire warfare spectrum."
>Thursday, April 10, Ottawa Congress Centre, 55 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa
>
>Join us for a series of nonviolent direct actions, including blockades,
>sit-ins, die-ins, attempts to conduct citizens' weapons inspections, and
>more.
>
>For further details contact Homes not Bombs, Ottawa, at (613) 237-0730
>ext. 1, in Toronto at (416) 651-5800, in Hamilton at (905) 627-2696 or
>526-7982, in Montreal at (514) 521-5252, in Kitchener-Waterloo at 745-9006
>
>A southern Ontario bus will leave on the morning of Wednesday, April 9,
>returning the evening of Thursday, April 10. Return tickets $40 includes
>food and overnight accommodation (if you cannot attend but would like to
>subsidize a bus seat or two, cheques can be made out to Homes not Bombs
>and sent to PO Box 73620, 509 St. Clair Ave. West, Toronto, ON M6C 1C0)
>
>
>WHAT IS CANSEC?
>CANSEC is the largest annual exhibition of the weapons of war and
>repression in Canada, hosted at the Ottawa Congress Centre in "an
>informative and entertaining environment."
>
>CANSEC represents the extent to which Canada profits from war, domestic
>repression and inhuman border policies, and how this axis of evil is
>used to protect the interests of the wealthy few.
>
>CANSEC exhibitors include the largest weapons firms in Canada's
>$5-billion-a-year war industry, including the branch plants of the U.S.'
>leading arms manufacturers, as well as companies devoted to producing
>ever more insidious technology of surveillance, infiltration, disruption and
>control.
>
>Hence, CANSEC is intended for everyone from warriors intent on bombing
>other countries into market submission to those who would spy on people
>from Arabic and/or Middle Eastern background here in Canada, those who
>are intent on producing further intrusive border mechanisms to halt the flow
>of immigrants and refugees, and those who would use night vision equipment,
>for example, to repress First Nations at Burnt Church trying to exercise
>control over their waters.
>
>Invitees include all NATO nations, as well as CSIS, the RCMP, Dept. of
>Fisheries and Oceans, War Dept. personnel and Canadian Forces, Transport
>Canada, Immigration, Parliamentarians, Department of Foreign Affairs and
>International Trade, and Trade Team members who wish to sell weapons
>abroad.
>
>CANSEC promises one-stop shopping for "The requirements of the Canadian
>Forces, across the entire warfare spectrum and in recognition of the
>evolving battle space," which includes space warfare, hi-tech command
>and control systems, and "interoperability" technology to become further
>embedded with U.S. forces.
>
>Iraq is the latest testing ground for new generations of weapons and
>weapons systems, such as Wescam's Predator targetting system, slated to
>be the "superstar" of the escalation. These weapons dealers will be eagerly
>watching what is taking place in Iraq as part of their sales campaigns
>for "the next one."
>
>Visit the website at www.cdia.ca and click on events for a complete list
>of companies involved at CANSEC and more details.
>
>Stay in touch with Homes not Bombs via tasc@web.ca (and yes, one of
>these days we will have our own website, we're working on it!)
for more information:
tasc@web.ca
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