Reply #3: It's not as if fthe decent citizens in Canada haven't been discussing this, you know! [View All]

From a recent Canadian article:

Colombians pay price for our comfort and complicityPublished Tuesday April 15th, 2008


C8By TRACY GLYNN
For The Daily Gleaner

Coal extracted from mines in Colombia has been dubbed "Colombian blood coal" because of assassinations of union leaders and violent displacements of communities at the country's coal mines.

Colombia is the most dangerous place in the world for people active in trade unions; 2,510 trade union leaders have been murdered in the last 10 years.

NB Power's Belledune plant burns coal produced in the Colombian Cerrejón mine.

Approximately 16 per cent of the power in our province is generated from Cerrejón coal.

On March 22, Adolfo González Montes, a worker at Cerrejón and union leader with SINTRACARBON (the National Union of Coal Mine Workers), was tortured and killed at his home.

He's survived by his wife and four small children.

Other union leaders and their family members live in fear as unknown people prowl around their homes and they receive threatening phone calls.

In many cases where the perpetrator has been identified, government-supported paramilitary organizations, the armed forces or the police have been found responsible.

The Colombian government's failure to act on such crimes allows the perpetrators to kill trade unionists with impunity.

http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/opinion/article/268044

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If they end up officially looking the other way and signing this thing they'll be no better than scum like _Bush and his fellow monsters.