About Us

This website is a project of the Halifax Initiative, a Canadian coalition for economic democracy. Our members include:

• Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace
• Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, Social Affairs Office
• Canadian Council for International Cooperation
• Canadian Friends of Burma
• Canadian Labour Congress
• Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights
• CAW-Canada Social Justice Fund
• CoDevelopment Canada
• CUSO
• Democracy Watch
• Falls Brook Centre
• Friends of the Earth Canada
• Kairos: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives
• MiningWatch Canada
• North-South Institute
• Oxfam Canada
• RESULTS Canada
• Rights & Democracy
• Social Justice Committee
• Steelworkers Humanity Fund
• Toronto Environment Alliance
• World Interaction Mondiale

Since our beginnings in 1994, we have worked through research, education, advocacy and alliance-building to fundamentally transform the international financial system and its institutions to achieve poverty eradication, environmental sustainability and an equitable re-distribution of wealth. Our work has primarily focused on the World Bank, the IMF, multilateral debt and the Tobin Tax.

This website is a collaborative effort mirroring our belief that the success of the citizen’s movement in support of currency transactions taxes is a result of global coordination and cooperation. The organizations that assisted in the creation of this site deserve our thanks and include:

• ATTAC (France)
• Global Policy Forum (US)
• Tobin Tax Initiative (US)
• War on Want (UK)
• Stamp Out Poverty (UK) http://www.stampoutpoverty.org/

Contact information can be found here.