[All] URGENT ACTION: Break the Silence Now!

Tue Aug 6 13:23:45 EDT 2013

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From: "Clayton Ruby, ForestEthics Advocacy" <onlineaction at forestethicsadvocacy.org>
To: butterflybluelu at rogers.com 
Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 10:31:38 AM
Subject: URGENT ACTION: Break the Silence Now!

  Dear Louisette,

In the last 18 months the federal government of Canada led by Prime Minister Harper has done everything it can to slander, legislate and intimidate us into silence. 

Now, under new National Energy Board (NEB) rules, they’ve made it almost impossible for Canadian citizens to provide input on tar sands pipeline, tanker or rail projects. If you wish to submit a simple letter of comment, you must first fill out a nine-page online application explaining why you are qualified to speak. Then the NEB gets to decide if you can submit comments based on a very strict set of criteria.  

Since when does the federal government get to gag its own citizens? 

It’s time to BREAK THE SILENCE. Please join me in signing an open letter to Justin Trudeau, Thomas Mulcair, Elizabeth May and Daniel Paille asking them to openly debate this abuse of our right to free speech in the House of Commons. I want Prime Minister Harper and his government held accountable for violating this fundamental democratic right. 

My goal is to collect 25,000 signatures and I need your help to do that. This is ambitious, but I need these 25,000 signatures to make a big impact when I announce a powerful initiative that ForestEthics Advocacy is launching soon. Please sign our Open Letter now and ask everyone you know to do the same. 

Concerned citizens in Ontario and Quebec found out the hard way about the NEB’s new rules when they tried to sign up to speak on the Enbridge Line 9b reversal project. For those of you fighting other pipeline projects like Kinder Morgan’s Trans-Mountain pipeline on the west coast, BEWARE!

The Harper government doesn’t want to hear anything you have to say that would point to the larger, perilous consequences of their tar sands agenda. They want Canadians who care about clean air and water, forests and wildlife and the health of the nation’s people put on mute. THEY WANT SILENCE. 

But in the next few weeks, the federal government is going to find out just how seriously we take this matter. ForestEthics Advocacy shed its non-profit status so that we could stand up to the Harper government and that’s exactly what we’re going to do. This Open Letter is a vital part of a strategy that will hit hard. 

We must break the silence. Please add your voice to mine and sign ForestEthics Advocacy’s Open Letter to all the federal opposition leaders. Then share this message with everyone you know. I mean everyone. My announcement in the next few weeks will include this Letter and I want you and your friends to be part of this historic moment.
Thank you! 

Sincerely,

Clayton Ruby, C.M.
Board Chair, ForestEthics Advocacy
B.A., LL.B, LL.M., LL.D. (honoris causa)

P.S. What happened to our democracy? I thought we were entitled to  speak our mind in Canada, especially when it comes to the tar sands. I  need 25,000 signatures on an Open Letter to accompany an important  announcement I will be making shortly. Please sign on, speak out and  tell everyone you know to do the same. 
   It's time to break the silence!

The federal government does not have the right to mute our concerns about tar sands. Sign our open letter NOW!     

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