[Viva] Fwd: Access to Medicine: Targeting all key MPs who need to hear from you / [RCAM] Cibler tous les député-es qui doivent entendre votre voix

[Margarite Sanchez]

Hi all,
Please take a few minutes to send a message to our Members of Parliament
regarding CAMR (see below). I think it is important that they hear from
women living with HIV(tho you don't need to disclose your status to be a
supporter). This website has an easy set up and sends your message to all
the important MP's you would want to contact.
I edited the message provided to reflect my own story. Here is what I sent
...fyi:
I am writing to you because I am a mother , who was diagnosed in 1993 with
"Full Blown AIDS" this was 4 years before there were life saving anti-viral
medications available. I know what women who have no access to medications
feel. My children were 7 and 10 years old then and there was no hope for
me. THE ONLY REASON I AM ALIVE TODAY AND THE ONLY REASON I WAS ABLE TO
RAISE MY CHILDREN WAS BECAUSE IN 1996 MEDICATIONS BECAME AVAILABLE TO ME.
 Therefor, I would like your support for Bill C-398. This is an important
humanitarian bill to reform Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR),
which is coming up to second reading and vote.

Passing Bill C- 398 is the compassionate and right thing to do. It is
unacceptable for us, as Canadians, to  ignore the suffering of others,
especially when there is an obvious solution.

Access to affordable medicines is an urgent humanitarian issue that
transcends partisan politics. All Parliamentarians and all parties should
be united in reforming CAMR to make it work. Now is the time to show real
leadership and reform CAMR. I ask that you commit to supporting Bill C-398
and work closely with the other members of your party to ensure that they,
too, vote in support of this critical legislation at second reading.

I look forward to your responses to this letter and your indication that
you and your party will support Bill C-398 at second reading and ensure its
speedy, successful passage through the legislative process.

Thank you very much,

Margarite Sanchez



From: "Gilleen Witkowski" < GWitkowski at aidslaw.ca >

Date: November 7, 2012 9:45:35 AM PST

To: < aiwright at telus.net >

Subject: [CAMR] Targeting all key MPs who need to hear from you / [RCAM]
Cibler tous les député-es qui doivent entendre votre voix


Dear CAMR reform supporters,

Thank you! Over the last two weeks, 500 Canadians have sent their Bill
C-398 letters to the House of Commons, calling on MPs to fix Canada’s
Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR). Members of all parties have shown
support and presented petitions in Parliament on our behalf, but we need to
get more support, especially since the government continues to oppose it
and many MPs are receiving blatantly false information about the bill’s
proposed reforms to CAMR.

As we get closer to MPs voting to keep or kill the bill on November 28 , we
are asking you to help us target our advocacy. Unless we get enough votes
by the next vote on November 28, Bill C-398’s changes to make CAMR workable
will die.

1. Visit http://www.medicinesforall.ca to send an email to all key MPs who
need to hear from you, along with other prominent parliamentarians.

2. Please share! Facebook Twitter

Help us fight to ensure millions of people in the developing world get
access to the essential medicines they need to survive.

About this email : You are receiving this email because you opted-in for
our mailing list in the past after participating in an online action to
support the Canada's Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR) Reform campaign .
Occasionally, you will receive brief campaign updates and notices on how
you can get involved. If you no longer want to receive information about
this campaign, please respond to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject
line. If you have any questions, please contact us at gwitkowski at aidslaw.ca.

*****

Chers les partisans du RCAM,

Merci! Depuis deux semaines, 500 Canadien-nes ont envoyé des lettres
concernant le Projet de loi C-398 à la Chambre des communes, exhortant les
député-es à rectifier le Régime canadien d’accès aux médicaments (RCAM).
Des membres de tous les partis ont manifesté leur appui et déposé des
pétitions en notre nom au Parlement, mais il nous faut encore plus
d’appuis, puisque le gouvernement continue de s’y opposer et que plusieurs
député-es entendent des faussetés flagrantes quant aux réformes proposées
par le projet de loi.

À l’approche du vote des députés pour appuyer ou rejeter le projet de loi,
le 28 novembre , nous vous demandons de nous aider à cibler notre
plaidoyer. Si nous n’obtenons pas suffisamment d’appuis lors du vote du 28
novembre, le Projet de loi C-398 pour rendre le RCAM efficace mourra.

1. Visitez http://www.medicamentspourtous.ca pour envoyer un courriel à
tous les député-es clés qui doivent entendre votre voix et à d’autres
parlementaires de premier plan.

2. S.v.p. partagez! Facebook Twitter

Help us fight to ensure millions of people in the developing world get
access to the essential medicines they need to survive.

About this email : You are receiving this email because you opted-in for
our mailing list in the past after participating in an online action to
support the Canada's Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR) Reform campaign .
Occasionally, you will receive brief campaign updates and notices on how
you can get involved. If you no longer want to receive information about
this campaign, please respond to this email with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject
line. If you have any questions, please contact us at gwitkowski at aidslaw.ca.
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