Fairness Agenda

[Jessica]

Yuor Fairness agenda reminds me of the Alternative Federal bUsget, a project of the Canadian 
centre for Policy Alternatives ( <http://www.policyalternatives.ca>
Winnipeg.  The AFB sets out how, under the accepted fiscal constaints, a natinoal budget can be 
formed which both meets the fiscal goasl of the ruling Liberals (i.e. defect reduction, debt 
reduction) AND repairs and renders sustainable the social safety net damaged beyond recognition 
by the Liberals and Tories cutting and chipping, using as an excuse that the defecit supposedly 
came from spending too much on social programs (they actually account for less than three percent 
of the debt - the rest is from corporate welfare).  The AFB is formulated by representatives from the 
public sector:  unions, health care workers, environmental activists, students, some private sector 
unions, anti-poverty groups and individual citizens (among others).

The AFB is a noble project which can serve two purposes:  to politicise the previously politically 
disinterested, and to unify more of the left.  It can't, however, in my opinion, succeed because its 
program still depends on reforming a capitalist system.

Not knowing a whole lot about your project, I suspect the same things could nonetheless be said 
about it

Jess