[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

[wendy stevens]

hi my name is wendy stevens and I support Bill C-398.

On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Margarite Sanchez <
margaritesanchez at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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