About

Founded in 1985, the Council of Canadians is Canada’s largest citizens’ organization, with members and chapters across the country. We work to protect Canadian independence by promoting progressive policies on fair trade, clean water, safe food, public health care, and other issues of social and economic concern to Canadians.

We develop creative campaigns to put some of the country’s most important issues into the spotlight. We organize speaking tours, days of action, conferences and demonstrations. We also produce research reports, create popular materials, and work with individuals and organizations across the country and around the world. We do all of this to ensure that governments know the kind of Canada we want.

The Council does not accept money from corporations or governments, and is sustained entirely by the volunteer energy and financial assistance of its members.

Vision

Our work at this political moment has three goals:

- To help Canadians define ourselves and our understanding of sovereignty and democracy in relation to the rest of the world in an era of increased U.S-Canada tensions and increased pressure for deeper continental integration.

- To work with Canadians and people around the world to reclaim the global and local commons which are the shared heritage of humanity and of the earth.

- To create a compelling civil society movement in search of social justice both here in Canada and internationally whose core mandate is the creation of participatory , living democracy for all the peoples of the world.