[Viva] Fwd: Liberals Support Bill C-398 / Les libéraux appuient le projet de loi C-398

Sat Nov 24 23:32:17 PST 2012

Thanks Wendy!  In addition, and it's important to know, the NDP are 100%
behind this Bill too.  The Conservatives are being non-committal.  If you
ask the MP in your riding, it he/she is Conservative, they will likely tell
you they have not made up their mind.  I asked Ron Cannan and he eventually
met with Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network and it sounded promising and so I
followed up with a letter congratulating him on his choice and telling him
I would be letting everyone I know in Kelowna that he decided to vote yes!
 This is a way of keeping up the pressure.  The Vernon MP Colin Mayes will
not return calls or emails and he voted no last time.  I will be putting a
plea into as many people as I can in Vernon to call him.

Everyone should have access to any life saving medication.  Patents are
extended by combining medications and what was a 10 - 20 year patent
becomes a 40 year patent.. all so that pharmas can make more money and
people in poor nations are not allowed to save their families or
themselves... it is really, really horrific.

Denise

On Sat, Nov 24, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Wendybebe73 at gmail.com <
wendybebe73 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Awesome work Denise. Good to see progress already. That is a very
> 'positive' thing to hear. Keep on rocking their boat. Please keep in
> contact with me, I want to learn all I can and be as helpful as I am able.
> We have to fight for each other, across the street or across the world. Its
> good to know there are peeps like you fighting the good fight. You go
> girl!!! (i actually hate that expression but i felt it works here!) take
> care Denise!
>
> Denise Becker <dbecker106 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >---------- Forwarded message ----------
> >From: Denise Becker <dbecker106 at gmail.com>
> >Date: Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 7:47 PM
> >Subject: Re: Liberals Support Bill C-398 / Les libéraux appuient le projet
> >de loi C-398
> >To: bob.rae at parl.gc.ca
> >
> >
> >Dear Mr. McKone:
> >
> >Thank you for your letter regarding the Liberal Party's and Mr. Rae's
> >position on Bill C-398.   It is extremely good news that your Party is at
> >the forefront of Human Rights.  I will pass on this news to the women I
> >know who have HIV and to my friends and acquaintances... it certainly
> makes
> >me confident in the ability of the Liberal Party to be our Nation's
> leaders.
> >
> >Thank you again and my very best regards,
> >
> >Denise Becker
> >
> >
> >2012/11/23 <bob.rae at parl.gc.ca>
> >
> >  *Le français suit l’anglais*
> >>
> >> On behalf of Liberal Leader Bob Rae, I would like to thank you for your
> >> recent email regarding Bill C-398, *An Act to amend the Patent Act
> (drugs
> >> for international humanitarian purposes)*.****
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> There is no question that we need to get more low-cost medicines and
> other
> >> essential medical supplies and equipment to people in developing
> countries.
> >> It is the right thing to, and it is the Canadian thing to do.  The
> >> Liberal Party believes that the government should commit itself to the
> >> procurement of quality medicines wherever they are available to help
> those
> >> countries most in need roll back the advance of devastating  diseases
> like
> >> HIV/AIDs, malaria, and tuberculosis that are ravaging their
> populations, as
> >> well as to assist in creating lasting health infrastructure in their
> >> countries.  It is for these reasons that Liberal MPs will be voting in
> >> favour of Bill C-398 at second reading.****
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> However, while the Harper Conservatives claim to have made good on the
> >> previous Liberal government’s promise to double aid to Africa, the
> reality
> >> is that they are hundreds of millions short.  The Conservatives have
> also
> >> cut Canada’s funding for vaccine research and for advances in
> microbicides
> >> to the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and the
> International
> >> Partnership for Microbicides (IPM).****
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> Thank you for taking the time to write to the Leader of the Liberal
> Party.
> >> ****
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> Yours sincerely,****
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> Colin McKone****
> >>
> >> Office of the Liberal Leader****
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>  ------------------------------
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> Au nom du chef libéral Bob Rae, j’aimerais vous remercier pour votre
> >> récent courriel concernant le projet de loi C-398 visant à modifier la
> *Loi
> >> sur les brevets (produits pharmaceutiques à des fins humanitaires)*.****
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> Il est clair que nous devons acheminer davantage de médicaments à
> moindre
> >> coût et d’autres fournitures et équipements médicaux vers les pays en
> voie
> >> de développement. C’est la bonne chose à faire et c’est dans la
> tradition
> >> canadienne. Le Parti libéral croit que le gouvernement devrait
> s’engager à
> >> faciliter l’accès aux médicaments de qualité, là où ils sont
> disponibles,
> >> aux pays qui en ont le plus besoin afin de ralentir la progression des
> >> maladies dévastatrices comme le VIH/SIDA, la malaria et la tuberculose,
> qui
> >> font des ravages dans ces populations. En outre, le gouvernement devrait
> >> aider à la création d’une infrastructure de santé durable dans ces pays.
> >> C’est la raison pour laquelle les députés libéraux voteront en faveur du
> >> projet de loi C-398 en deuxième lecture*.*
> >>
> >> * *
> >>
> >> Toutefois, les conservateurs de Harper prétendent qu’ils ont donné
> suite à
> >> la promesse du gouvernement libéral précédent, soit de doubler l’aide en
> >> faveur de l’Afrique. Dans les faits, il y a un manque à gagner de
> centaines
> >> de millions de dollars. Les conservateurs ont aussi réduit le
> financement
> >> pour la recherche sur les vaccins et pour le progrès dans le domaine des
> >> microbicides dans le cadre de l’initiative internationale pour un vaccin
> >> contre le sida (IIVS) et le partenariat international pour les
> microbicides
> >> (PIM).****
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> Je vous remercie d’avoir pris le temps d’écrire au chef du Parti
> libéral.*
> >> ***
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> Cordialement,****
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> Colin McKone****
> >>
> >> Bureau de chef libéral****
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >> ** **
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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