[Viva] Fwd: FW: GOVERNMENT STALLING BILL C-393 IN SENATE - URGENT ACTION CALL // LE GOUVERNEMENT PARALYSE LE PROJET DE LOI C-393 AU SÉNAT- APPEL URGENT À L'ACTION

Tue Mar 22 13:36:24 PDT 2011

This is terrible news but not surprising... please immediately call the
three listed below and voice your concern.

Thank you!
Denise Becker

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Ross Harvey <rossh at bcpwa.org>
Date: 2011/3/22
Subject: FW: GOVERNMENT STALLING BILL C-393 IN SENATE - URGENT ACTION CALL
// LE GOUVERNEMENT PARALYSE LE PROJET DE LOI C-393 AU SÉNAT- APPEL URGENT À
L'ACTION
To: BCPWA Group <BCPWAGroup at bcpwa.org>

FYI

Ross Harvey

Executive Director

BC Persons With AIDS Society

1107 Seymour Street, 2nd Floor

Vancouver, BC   V6B 5S8

t. 604.893.2252

f. 604.893.2251

c.604.788.9111

1.800.994.2437

www.bcpwa.org

*From:* Kristin Weatherall [mailto:kweatherall at icad-cisd.com] *On Behalf Of
*ICAD-CISD
*Sent:* March-22-11 12:55 PM
*To:* ICAD-CISD
*Subject:* GOVERNMENT STALLING BILL C-393 IN SENATE - URGENT ACTION CALL //
LE GOUVERNEMENT PARALYSE LE PROJET DE LOI C-393 AU SÉNAT- APPEL URGENT À
L'ACTION
*Importance:* High

** Please circulate the attached Action Call widely to your organization’s
networks and members**

* *

*URGENT CALL TO ACTION:  PLEASE EMAIL AND PHONE PRIME MINISTER HARPER AND
CONSERVATIVE SENATE LEADER MARJORY LEBRETON*

* *

We now have reliable information that the Conservative Government is
unwilling to let Bill C-393, which would fix Canada’s Access to Medicines
Regime (CAMR), proceed further in the Senate.  We are working to uncover
further details.

This position shows contempt for Parliament — if nothing else, the Senate
must study the bills that come to it with majority support in the House of
Commons, not simply stall them.  (Bill C-393 passed in the House of Commons
recently with a vote of 172 MPs in favour and 111 against, with support
drawn from all parties.)

*Given this latest news, we must therefore redouble our efforts, which had
an amazing impact in the House of Commons.  *This is the final hurdle and
one that, as predicted, will take time.  *But it is doable.  *The Senate
must fulfill their obligation to allow this to come to a timely vote so that
Bill C-393 does not die on the Order Paper (again).

Please make the following 3 calls and/or emails as soon as possible, today
or tomorrow:

*Prime Minister Stephen Harper*

Telephone: 613-992-4211

Harper.S at parl.gc.ca

*Senator Marjory LeBreton*

Telephone: 613-943-0756 or 1-800-267-7362

Marjory.LeBreton at pco-bcp.gc.ca

*Senator Gerald Comeau*

Telephone: 613-943-1448 or 1-800-267-7362

comeag at sen.parl.gc.ca

These are the primary targets for public pressure.

If you can make additional calls, please focus all energies on other
Conservative Senators.  (Liberal Senators are supportive and have repeatedly
asked that the Government move Bill C-393 forward.)

You can find a full list of Senators and their phone numbers and email
addresses, at:
http://www.parl.gc.ca/common/senmemb/senate/isenator.asp?Language=E

To take further action, please visit one or more of the following:

AVAAZ:            www.avaaz.org/en/save_lives

Legal Network: www.LetDemocracyWin.ca <http://www.letdemocracywin.ca/>

Universities Allied for Essential Medicines (UAEM):

http://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/6158/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6028

A full action alert, including a sample script for calls to Senators’
offices and further contact information, is available at:
http://www.aidslaw.ca/EN/camr/documents/URGENTACTIONCALL_MARCH%2016-22.pdf

For more information, visit www.aidslaw.ca/camr or follow the Legal Network
on Twitter at www.twitter.com/aidslaw for updates.

______________________________

*Lindsey Amèrica-Simms*

Outreach Coordinator | Coordinatrice du rayonnement

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network | Le Réseau juridique canadien VIH/sida

416-595-1666 ext (poste) 236

www.aidslaw.ca | www.twitter.com/aidslaw

*Access to Medicines Campaign*: www.aidslaw.ca/camr |
www.aidslaw.ca/facebook

*La campagne pour accès aux médicaments* : www.aidslaw.ca/rcam |
www.aidslaw.ca/facebook

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