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Dear Mr. Harper: There’s a way to pay for global health needs
Monday, March 22nd, 2010
Mar. 21, 2010
The net impact of the FTT would be virtually nil on banks and nothing on consumers. But it would raise billions of dollars in a time of severe cutbacks for desperately needed global health initiatives, such as the effort to provide universal access to prevention, treatment and care for HIV – a goal that G8 leaders pledged in 2005 to meet by this year but that remains far off. Canada’s strident objection to the FTT is a mystery.
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