September 12, 2006
W. Geoffrey Beattie, President
RBC Financial Group
P.O. Box 1, Royal Bank Plaza
Toronto, Ontario M5J 2J5
Dear Mr. Beattie,
After using the services of your bank for more than 20 years, I am closing my accounts with you – effectively immediately.
According to your website, Michael McCain, CEO of Maple Leaf Foods, is on the Board of Directors of the Royal Bank. As much as I am able, I will not have any association, no matter how remote, with enterprises which pollute and/or exploit our resources such as water, animals or people – example, the hog industry.
I take this opportunity to encourage you and all members of your Board of Directors, indeed your entire organization, to visit the websites below and inform yourselves about the expansion of the disgraceful and inhumane ‘pig factories’ across our beautiful country:
Stop the Hogs Coalition at
http://www.stopthehogs.com/index.htm
Beyond Factory Farming Coalition at http://www.beyondfactoryfarming.org/
GRACE Factory Farm Project at
http://www.factoryfarm.org/canada/
Thank you.
Yours truly,
Elaine M. Hughes
Box 23
Archerwill, SK S0E 0B0
CANADA
Cc: Manager, Royal Bank of Canada, Tisdale Branch, 1102-100th Street, Tisdale, SK S0E 1T0
Customer Relations Centre, RBC Financial Group, P.O. Box 1, Royal Bank Plaza, Toronto, Ontario M5J 2J5 Email: Customer Relations Centre