If you are an American, please contact your elected representatives and tell them *not* to veto tomorrow’s (Tuesday Feb 20, 2024) Gaza Ceasefire resolution in the UN.
Canada needs to show leadership here to prevent genocide in Gaza.
This is is not optional: countries like Canada that have signed the Genocide Convention have assumed the obligation of preventing the perpetration of genocide by other states.
Thank-you so very much to everyone who has signed my restore UNWRA Funding Petition! Imagine: 3,051 signatures in only 5 days! And here I was wondering if my Petition would really be able to get enough signatures to get certified for presentation to Parliament in just 30 days. I knew very well that I'm not the only Canadian who cares desperately about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, but I didn't know if I would be able to reach them.
Most of the news from Gaza is traumatic, as ambulances are attacked and hospitals, schools, homes, and places of worship are bombed, people are killed and wounded, whole families are wiped out in an instant. There isn’t much good news.
But this little miracle baby is good news.
If we leave it up to Israel to decide the fate of Palestinians, this innocent orphan’s future won’t be very bright.
Palestinians have lost enough. Its time they were free. They need the opportunity for self determination and the right of return that is their due.
Hey, I’ve got an idea: since Israel has destroyed so much of Gaza’s housing stock and real estate has been turned to rubble, its time the illegal walls and checkpoints came down, and the illegal occupiers were turned out of the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
Its too bad Canada traded in peacekeeping for warmaking. This could have been an opportunity for real leadership. Sadly, we won’t likely get that before we have #ProportionalRepresentation.
Thank-you so very much to everyone who has signed my restore UNWRA Funding Petition!
Imagine: 3,051 signatures in only 5 days!
And here I was wondering if my Petition would really be able to get enough signatures to get certified for presentation to Parliament in just 30 days. I knew very well that I’m not the only Canadian who cares desperately about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, but I…
Thank-you so very much to everyone who has signed my restore UNWRA Funding Petition!
Imagine: 3,051 signatures in only 5 days!
And here I was wondering if my Petition would really be able to get enough signatures to get certified for presentation to Parliament in just 30 days. I knew very well that I’m not the only Canadian who cares desperately about the plight of Palestinians in Gaza, but I didn’t know if I would be able to reach them. But it seems the people I’ve asked to sign and share have done a brilliant job of it.
And special thanks to Mike Morrice for sponsoring this!
While our democratic governments offer unconditional support to Israel, more and more people around the world have decided to hit the streets in peaceful protest for a Palestinian peace. We all have busy lives: nobody has time for this. I certainly didn’t have time to write a petition. But we have to do this.
Because we know what’s going on. Just as the Vietnam War played out in the living rooms of America, the War on Hamas is up close and personal, on our phones, tablets and computers.
With people being bombed, unhoused, displaced, starved and killed, the importance and urgency of the subject of this petition is staggering. Canada needs to restore funding to UNWRA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East)
![PARLIAMENT OF CANADA
[logo] House of Commons
Chambre des Communes
Canada
Petition e-4802 (Foreign affairs) #UNRWA
History
Open for signature
February 12, 2024, at 2:03 p.m. (EDT)
Closed for signature
March 13, 2024, at 2:03 p.m. (EDT)
Member of Parliament
Mike Morrice
Kitchener Centre
Green Party Caucus
Ontario
Province/ Territory Signatures
Alberta 204
British Columbia 513
Manitoba 20
New Brunswick 17
Newfoundland and Labrador 26
Northwest Territories 4
Nova Scotia 90
Nunavut
Ontario 1,692
Prince Edward Island 14
Québec 406
Saskatchewan 39
Yukon Territory 2
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