Update from our Annual Report

Privatization Task Force Report in PIA's 2010-2011 Annual Report

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Plain text of the Privatization Task Force Report:

Challenging the privatization of public services is at the core of what Public Interest Alberta does in many of our task forces and advocacy campaigns. In order to be effective in our fight against privatization, we need to see the connections between the privatization of different public sectors and to work together to build a stronger movement for public services.

Public Interest Alberta continued to support the work of the Our Power Citizens Group in their on-going efforts to challenge the privatization of Edmonton’s electrical generation assets. The Our Power Citizens group kept the issue in front of the candidates during the October municipal election with lawn signs, interventions during candidate forums and an on-line survey to see where all candidates stood on the issue. The group has done further research into the potential conflicts of interest in EPCOR’s creation of Capital Power, and they are lobbying Council to launch an independent investigation into a series of troubling questions surrounding this sell-off of public assets.

Also available: Last year's (2009-2010) Task Force Report in PDF