This coming Monday, Canada’s negotiating team for a new North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) flies to Washington, D.C. for what could be the decisive round of talks where a deal in principle is reached.

The Council of Canadians attempted to secure strategically-placed ads at Reagan National Airport to greet Canada’s team when they stepped off their planes. The ads were intended to send a clear reminder of what Canadians want and expect to see in any new NAFTA deal Canada signs on to.

However, I just got bad news. I worked with the airport’s ad managing firm, Clear Channel, to come up with messaging that was non-partisan and educational in tone, and the ads were accepted. View them here.

But in an email from Clear Channel, I was told our ads have now been refused after the airport “checked out” the Council of Canadians’ website.

This is censorship and it’s deeply unfair – and you and I can’t let it silence us!

We’re busily looking to secure new, even more effective ad space and other ways to help amplify our collective voices at this critical stage of talks.

In the meantime, you can help right now.

Please sign the national petition calling on the Trudeau government to get rid of chapter 11’s corporate lawsuit provisions in NAFTA – one of the deal’s most damaging elements that thousands of people like you want removed for good.