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Dear Prime Minister Carney & Minister of Foreign Affairs Anand CC local MP, leaders of other parties Thank you, Mr Carney, for recognizing Palestine (alongside the UK and Australia), and for following the recent examples of Ireland, Spain, and Norway, which recognized Palestine last year. While this was a necessary step forward, it is not enough to address Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its plans to annex the occupied West Bank; it will not automatically end Israel’s unlawful occupation of Palestine; it won't even stop the flow of arms from Canada to Israel (which has been demonstrated to still being going on, your protestations to the contrary notwithstanding).  It should be noted that the International Court of Justice is clear that the Palestinian people have an inalienable right to self-determination, so this shouldn't even have been a question in the first place. Furthermore, more than 140 UN member states already recognized Palestine. Canada is not leading here or be...

To Carney again, along with a bunch of cabinet ministers. This one courtesy of Lead now with additions from yours truly. Send your own letter here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/no-cuts-ett Dear Prime Minister Carney and Cabinet Ministers, I’m writing to express my concern about your government's proposed $25 billion in federal budget cuts. These cuts risk gutting the very public services that working people across this country rely on every day — health care, housing, EI, child care, and more. It's funny how there's no hesitation when MPs believe they need a cost of living wage increase or when MPs assemble a staff to support their work, but when ordinary workers ask for fair compensation (Canada Post workers, Air Canada flight attendants, just to name a few) or to keep their jobs, they're told to take it in the chin for the good of the economy. We are in a moment of overlapping crises: climate disasters, a worsening housing emergency, and under-resourced health ca...

Dear Mr Carney While your desire to hear a variety of perspectives is commendable, perhaps there are certain people we've heard enough from, and whose perspective is not valuable enough for the leaders of our country to spend time on. May I draw your attention to a recent piece in The Tyee : “It's honestly mind-boggling why any Liberal government would invite a key figure involved in the horror show that is Project 2025,” Dwivedi told The Tyee over text. “The Carney government has not made clear what kind of particular insight or expertise this person would have had into active trade negotiations and Trump’s mindset within them, but what is clear is that Project 2025 seeks to erode basic norms of democracy, limit women’s access to reproductive health (including contraception), and to roll back rights for the LBGTQ+ community.” Read more:  https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/09/05/Liberal-Backlash-Carney-Invite-Project-2025/ Mr Carney, you promised Canadians “elbows up” and ...

Re “Temporary foreign workers taking jobs from young Canadians” This [wire service article reproduced in the FreeP] article is deeply troubling, in large part for the way it has been framed. You have a choice with a headline. The story is really about how the Conservatives accuse the Liberals have broken their promise to Canadians about limiting immigration numbers. The “stealing jobs” boogieman headline is clickbait, not actually elucidating the article. Equally irresponsible: nowhere in the article does anyone clearly and in simple language refute the obvious mendacity about temporary foreign workers stealing jobs from young people. Canada is a deeply racist country that maintains a temporary form worker program to obtain a workforce do the jobs Canadians won't do, certainly not for those wages nor under those conditions. In fact, immigrants create jobs. It takes an entrepreneurial spirit to leave the familiarity of home to strike out somewhere new. That courage and in...