Informing local branch employees about RBC’s investments is an excellent way to build solidarity with workers in your local community. Here are the steps for completing our letter delivery action:

  1. Print the letter template or write your own!

  2. Prepare the action. Plan to bring banners and signs to draw attention while one or more participants enter the bank to deliver the letter by hand. Feel free to throw in some chanting or hand out some leaflets! For a more relaxed approach, film yourself outside the branch explaining the action and why you’re taking part to share on social media (don’t forget to tag us @bank4betterfuture!)

  3. Visit a local RBC branch and employees and communicate why you're there. Ask for a branch manager and ask them to pass this message on to their bosses and those with more decision-making power. If you’d like, provide contact info so they can reach you if they wish to receive further feedback.

    Remember - RBC employees are not the enemy, and when engaging with most employees, our emphasis is on asking them to bring our concerns to those with more influence.

  4. Once you’ve met with your branch manager, fill out this form to let us know!

  5. Share with us any content you gathered, if any, when completing your action: @bank4betterfuture (Instagram), @bank4future (Twitter), info@bankingonabetterfuture.org (email).

TMX talking points

  • These banks have now signed into a second project that has prompted intervention from CERD (the first being the CGL pipeline) about the treatment of Indigenous peoples on their territory. 

  • This is the most expensive tar sands project in Canadian history. 

  •  The banks are "for the people." Yet they fund pipelines that fund climate catastrophe and violate Indigenous consent in an age of so-called reconciliation.

  • 18 Insurers have now cut ties with the TMX pipeline due to rising reputational risk around this project, and yet, these banks have still signed on

  • The Indigenous-led resistance to this pipeline has caused insurance companies and financial institutions to stop funding this pipeline, and it will win to get the banks to drop it too. 

  • "We're not mad; we're disappointed." After years of fighting for fossil fuel divestment, the banks have propped up a dying industry backed by the federal government. 

Traditional territories of the Blackfoot Confederacy (Siksika, Kainai, Piikani), the Tsuut’ina, the Îyâxe Nakoda Nations, the Métis Nation (Calgary, AB)