I highly recommend that everyone here contact the MP in their riding and tell them that you're counting on them to stick to their clearly-worded promise on restoring the residency credit. Obviously you need to wait until the new government is formed, but make sure you do that...just a short 2 paragraph email. If you can, drop by the office of the MP and speak to their staff. Make your voice heard. I know a lot of you (myself included) who come from autocratic countries are skeptical of how effective the democratic process is, but this is no time to be cynical.
Frankly, I think all of us need to be more involved in the political process. Sure we're outsiders with no voting powers in this country, but obviously some immigrants had Trudeau's ear seeing as though his party made that promise. The real challenge is holding him to it and that needs a lot of people speaking out. Like others have said, amending or repealing laws is no trivial matter, and if we don't push hard for this the lib have no reason to engage in this process...especially since it involves a segment of the population that can't vote. So the case you want to make is that if such a law passes it will usher in a huge new cohort of future liberal voters (again, like others have said here).
Frankly, I think all of us need to be more involved in the political process. Sure we're outsiders with no voting powers in this country, but obviously some immigrants had Trudeau's ear seeing as though his party made that promise. The real challenge is holding him to it and that needs a lot of people speaking out. Like others have said, amending or repealing laws is no trivial matter, and if we don't push hard for this the lib have no reason to engage in this process...especially since it involves a segment of the population that can't vote. So the case you want to make is that if such a law passes it will usher in a huge new cohort of future liberal voters (again, like others have said here).
