HiMY SYeD -- Peace Rally & March, Canada out of Afghanistan Toronto Ontario Saturday October 27 2007 Organized by the Toronto Coalition to Stop the War Not One More Dead! Bring the Troops Home Now! Pan-Canadian Day of Action Against War: October 27 The war in Afghanistan is getting worse day by day. The Government of Canada and its NATO allies tell us that security and reconstruction are improving and that the battle for the hearts and minds of the Afghan people is being won by the West. In reality, the situation is much more dire. Reconstruction has been proven to be a smokescreen and the resistance to the occupation is growing. Violence increases every month that our soldiers remain in Kanadhar. It is time to stop the bloodshed - not in 2009 as our politicians suggest, but now. The Canadian Peace Alliance and Collectif Échec à la guerre call on the people of Canada and Quebec to demonstrate this October 27, 2007 and call for the troops to be brought home. On that day, people from Canada and the United States will be marching to end war. Our friends in the US have put out a call for events to end the Iraq war on the same date; so we will be jointly marching to end the violence that our governments are intent on continuing. The state of reconstruction in Kandahar is a shambles. The Senlis Council recently released a report that investigated the reconstruction claims by the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA). The Senlis Council found little of the promised ...