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The purpose of these web pages is to provide a framework for HAT members to get involved in writing letters about issues which concern them. This is also a place to post other actions, including petitions, or other lobbying actions. Some of these actions naturally evolve out of forum or meeting presentations. When appropriate, we will post these actions on this page, and each person may sign, or not, as they prefer. Each person will write or sign as an individual, not as a member of HAT. You can say that you are a Secular Humanist, if you feel that is appropriate, but you may not sign as a HAT member |
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Information about the various letter writing topics in the form of articles and links will be published on this web page. No one has to read anything they don't want
to. No one has to write about anything they don't want to. |
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Read our Letter Writing Guide to help you write an effective letter. |
| Grandmothers Campaign: Petition to the House of Commons.
Thanks go to Paulette Pelletier-Kelly for her presentation on Nov. 8, 2008, on the Grannies in Africa Campaign. Here is some background on the petition to the House of Commons: Spring to fall of 2008, the National Advocacy Network is sponsoring a cross-country petition to be presented in the House of Commons just prior to International Women's Day in March of 2009. We hope to gain 100,000 signatures to demonstrate to Parliament the genuine concern Canadians have to see a commitment to more and better aid across the board in the face of the devastating conditions faced by so many people around the globe. In particular, of course, we are concerned to see benefit to the grandmothers and AIDS orphans of sub-Saharan Africa as part of the impact of such a commitment. Our concern is to see an increase in our contribution to The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, legislative revisions to the Canadian Access to Medicines Regime and, at long last, a fulfillment of a decades old pledge our country made to increase our commitment to Foreign Aid to 0.7% of our Gross National Income. The final deadline for submission of completed petitions is January 10, 2009. |
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