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The letter was signed by authors Michael Ondaatje, Yann Martel and Gabor Maté, musicians Neil Young, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters, Sarah Harmer, Tegan and Sara, former diplomat Stephen Lewis, actress Daryl Hannah, environmentalists David Suzuki and Naomi Klein, as well as two sitting Green Party MPs, four former MPs, Senator Marilou McPhedran and union leaders.
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“The expensive weapons are largely useless in responding to natural disasters, providing international humanitarian relief or in peacekeeping operations,” the letter to Trudeau points out. “Nor can they (fighter jets) protect us from a pandemic or the climate and other ecological crises.”