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Canadians on Lemmy, Help Create a Petition Against Trampling Civil Liberties

There is a bill which was rushed through in June 2024 known as Bill C-70. https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/44-1/C-70 It was reported by Committee that they were not granted sufficient time to work on the bill.

Numerous people have reported a significant number of flaws with the final bill, far more than enough to repeal the effects of the bill and rework it. Note that quotations are intentionally only obtained from websites provided by the Government of Canada.

  1. Information on Petitions

A petition is not allowed to contain links, but quoting text from government websites may add strength to a petition.

  1. Proposed Petition

Petition to the Government of Canada

Whereas:

Members of Parliament were denied sufficient time to review Bill C-70 and to properly fix it in Committee;

Senate Member: "Colleagues, we are taking less time to review this consequential bill than we did with anti-terrorism bills in the last three decades — in 2001, 2012, 2015 and 2019 — all of which were passed quickly enough in the heat of the moment and were flawed.";

Senate Report: "Given the importance of the subject matter of Bill C-70, the committee is of the opinion that it would have benefitted from additional time to study this legislation.";

Thought crime: Canadians who align in thought with a foreign entity can receive life-in-prison even when no association with said foreign entity exists; and

House Member: C-70 "has manifest flaws in it that have been raised to all of us through a variety of sources in civil society, academia and from ordinary Canadians."

We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to:

1 Repeal/revert/cancel/undo/reverse Bill C-70 and its effects; and

2 Revisit the issues raised by Bill C-70 in sufficiently long Parliamentary sessions and Committee meetings to get things right.

  1. Next Steps

You can help! A petition has not yet been created. If you are willing to assist with the process of creating a petition, your help would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to contact me if you can provide support.

I am hopeful that Lemmy users will come together to create a petition, even though it means sharing your contact information with someone online.

Alternatively, if you are someone who could get maybe 6 friends or colleagues to agree to sign up for petition accounts, you are welcome to create the petition amongst your group.

https://mander.xyz/post/26444218 That link gives information about creating a petition account.

Feel free to "save" this post and revisit it.

You may also decide it is worth sharing this information with other people you know outside of Lemmy.

5 comments

  • Once the election is officially called on Sunday, will the bill be considered dead and have to be reintroduced in the next parliament? In effect, don't petitions also die when the bill associated with them dies?

    It may as well be delayed until the bill is re-introduced with the next government, as it may not even be re-tabled in the House with its current deficiencies.