TAKE ACTION -- While Brazil Burns, Canada Fiddles With Brazil-Canada Trade Agreement.

WHILE THE RAINFOREST BURNS, CANADA MUST HALT TRADE TALKS WITH BRAZIL.

Sierra Club Canada Foundation stands firmly with indigenous communities and the people of Brazil and neighbouring Amazonian nations.

At a time when any Canadian government should be leading by example to prevent irreversible climate catastrophe, Canada is negotiating the Canada-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement with Brazil.

Brazil’s President Bolsonaro is encouraging lawlessness, illegal deforestation, and with reckless rhetoric and gutting of environmental protections, he is pushing this singular place on earth closer to the brink.

The Amazon rainforest is an ecological gift to the world. It is irreplaceable. Its wanton destruction will leave every person of the world at risk.

Sierra Club Canada Foundation will continue its work to demand protections for ecologically critical areas as part of global action to address the climate crisis, and use its reach to engage Canadians to take action and demand an unequivocal response from the Canadian government that will see:

an immediate halt to all trade talks with Brazil until the Bolsonaro government issues a reversal of their positions and re-instates environmental protections, including a commitment to respect the rights of indigenous people

the strongest public condemnation of President Bolsonaro's actions, and include calls for immediate protection of forests and an end to illegal deforestation.

Please sign and send your urgent letter below.

Thank you for taking action.

Gretchen Fitzgerald - National Program Director

To: The Right Honourable Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, Minister of International Trade Diversification Jim Carr, Minister of Foreign Affairs Chrystia Freeland *

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Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Minister Carr and Minister Freeland,

As Brazil burns, Canada is negotiating the Canada-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement with Brazil.

Given the dangerous rhetoric used by President Bolsonaro that has created the conditions for lawlessness and illegal fires being set – on top of Bolsonaro’s right-wing, extremist and immoral disregard for the rights of indigenous people, his dismissal of human rights, and his collapsing of environmental protections – Canada must not be in any kind of negotiations with the Brazilian government.

The stakes are simply too high. One man must not control one of the world's richest ecological gifts.

The world is watching. Your leadership is needed.

In the face of this global crisis, I ask you to:

-	issue an unequivocal public condemnation of President Bolsonaro’s actions,
-	and halt trade talks with Brazil immediately until the Bolsonaro government issues a reversal of its positions --  including a commitment to respect the rights of indigenous people, and reinstatement of critical environmental protections.

Sincerely,

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