| Banking on Alternatives: A Look into the Canadian Banking
System
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brief synopsis
Length: 12 minutes
Format: DV
Featuring Mark Anielski, genuine-wealth economist (http://www.anielski.com/)
and Duff Conacher from Democracy
Watch, and the Canadian
Community Reinvestment Coalition
The short is a promo for our work on a feature-length documentary.
How are interest rates determined? Why does the federal government
borrow more from corporate banks than the Bank of Canada? Why
is charging interest a necessary faculty of our banking system?
Why are so many low-income people restricted from banking services?
What are the solutions? What are some of the working alternatives
that currently exist in Canada and in the rest of the world?
We pose these questions for the purpose of filling in some of
the blanks on how our current banking system is furthering Canada's
debt and subsidizing revenues for the wealthy elite and unstainable
corporations.
A surprising lack of research and exposure has been given to alternative
economic and banking models that are being used, that have been
used and could be used. The banking system we currently rely on,
for most, has not been well defined by its limitations comparably
to other systems. Analysis and definitions of the banking system,
the history of its development and its relations to global governance,
neo-liberalism, and capitalism will be necessary to showcase how
and why the systems in which we work in are not working for everybody,
and thus, giving reasoning for viable alternatives.
Sponsors and support:
Alberta Public Interest Research Group (APIRG) htt://www.apirg.org
The Alberta Foundation for the Arts
Mark Anielski http://www.anielski.com/).
Please check out our website at: http://altbank.apirg.org/index.htm
Director: Sheryle Carlson
Contact: sherylec@shaw.ca, 780.426.0009
Purposes of this short video:
- to summarize our main goals, questions and answers from research
done thus far,
- to portray our intentions for our finalized product (main documentary/series/publication),
- to be presented at workshops and conferences as a means of outreach
on the issues, and to network with possible documentary subjects,
- to be used in our documentary funding proposals
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