"I want to say just one final thing, because I know that so many of your members were the backbone of the make poverty history movement, and are anxious about what the recession means for global solidarity and global justice.

Let me reassure you today.

There are those who would use the excuse of the financial crisis to break their promises to the worlds poorest. Well we will not. We will keep our promises.

Let us remember that our beliefs, our conviction, our determination to fight for them has resulted in astonishing path breaking and life-changing advances — debt relief, 500 million children to be vaccinated, 40 million more children in education, millions more with free health care. 

And friends, our achievements teach us never to believe something is impossible.

Never to believe a blind fate governs us all.

Never to believe that justice is beyond our reach.

And so this is a moment that calls for the progressive policies we fight for and believe in."

Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Gordon Brown from a speech published in the Guardian. 

It's happenning in other parts of the world.  Why not Canada?

Where's the leadership?