Welcome

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The foremost task of "Burma Forum - Canada" is to assess the Canadian policy towards Burma and to render policy inputs that could be effectual in dealing with the military regime in Burma. The second but equally important is to explore a possible way of strengthening Burma solidarity movement across the country. 

With the inception of this forum we are expecting to yield a policy assessment report to be submitted to the government of Canada and to lay down a foundation for the creation of a lobby group dedicated to raising Burma issues more effectively in Canada.

For the longer tern, "Burma Forum - Canada" is intended to be a place of consultation and a way of consolidation for Burmese activist communities in Canada.

Among the current forum's agendas, the following are included:

• Economic Sanctions: review on the government's policy and actions, especially assessment on the selected economic sanction. 
• Canadian investment and trade: examination of Canadian businesses in Burma, and import/export flows between the two countries.
• Networking activist communities: discussion on the creation of a network required to raise Burma issue effectively in Canada.
• Assessment on political situation in Burma: discussion on the latest developments including the ongoing National Convention sponsored by the military regime, detention of Daw Aung Suu Kyi and 1500 political prisoners, and pro-democracy movement in the country.
• Humanitarian assistance and capacity building: assessment on Canadian humanitarian aid and possible assistance for capacity building required in the process of a democratization in Burma.
• Community Initiative and Services: as Burmese communities are growing in Canada, there is a need to solidify the notion of community spirit and necessary services in Canada.
• Discourses will be carried out in both Burmese and English, and Burmese and Canadian activists are welcome to join in the forum.

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	Statement of Second Burma Forum (Canada) Read more . . .
	Agenda for the 2nd Burma Forum Canada Read more . . .
	The Statement on Convening the 2nd Burma Forum The Burma Forum Canada (BFC) is convening "The 2nd Burma Forum" at the Embassy West Hotel in Ottawa on March 17 and 18, 2006. Read more . . .
	Letter to UN General Secretary We, Canada-based civil societies and Burmese dissident organizations, are writing this letter to you, supporting the recent call of former Czech President Vaclav Havel and retired South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu to put the Burma issue on the agenda of the Security Council Read more . . .
	Supporters in Canada endorse the call to discuss Burma at the UNSC Read more . . .
	Burma: Canada’s forgotten war - the Globe and Mail In Burma during the Second World War, it fell to the air transport squadrons, two of them entirely Canadian, to keep thousands of Allied troops fed and supplied as they fought the Japanese in the jungles below. Read more . . .
	Canada Needs To Do More About Burma - Embassy Magazine Canadian Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew is attending the Regional Forum of Southeast Asia Association (ASEAN) and Post-Ministerial Conference this week from July 28 to 29 in Vientiane, Laos. Read more . . .
	A rose for the `unfree': Suu Kyi turns 60 - The Toronto Star Today Aung San Suu Kyi will celebrate her 60th birthday, which in a Buddhist culture marks an important milestone in one's life. I would like to meet her and give her a rose like the one she is seen holding in a photograph in my study. Read more . . .
	Remeber Suu Kyi - Editorial - the Globe and Mail Not nearly enough has been done to force Myanmar's ruling junta to release democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. But she has not been erased from our consciousness. Around the world, her 60th birthday tomorrow is being marked by appeals not only for her freedom but also for the end of repression in her country. Read more . . .
	Burma aka Myanmar is where Bush got it right - The Globe and Mail If we want to make the world safe for democracy, then Burma should be marked "urgent" along with the North Koreas of this world. The issue even has an old-fashioned, charismatic leader around whom global opinion can rally. Read more . . .
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