Fighting Bill-C24 by petition Q&A : are we winning yet?

[sashali78]

Friends and Supporters,
As we reached over 6000 signatures on the petition (link below), I wanted to give you an interim report on how we are doing so far on our activities:
1. We have contacted over 50 MP's and sent them our message and documents through email, fax and regular mail.
2. We have conducted 15 meetings with conservative, NDP and liberal MPs across Canada. We have met a great support among those MPs who were ready to meet with us and several had agreed to table our petition (the legal version of it) at the parliament. Few more meetings have been scheduled and will be conducted soon.
3. We are working with immigration committee members and were invited as a group to be witnesses/experts in front of the committee when the Bill is going to be debated. This is very important achievement as committee is the one responsible for any future Bill amendments. Due to all of the above,
4. We had several press releases, in Toronto Star, Kingston Tv and Vancouver press. We are working on getting more.

What YOU can do to help us?
1. Sign the petition: https://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/parliament-of-canada-do-not-allow-unfair-treatment-of-former-foreign-workers-and-international-students-by-new-canadian-citizenship-bill-c-24
2. Promote it on your Facebook/Twitter page. Send it to all your friends.
3. Contact your local communities/newspapers/magazines - send us an email at FightTheBillC24@outlook.com and I will provide all needed templates/documents.
4. Contact your MP - contact me at FightTheBillC24@outlook.com and I will you with all needed docs and support

 

[waqas11]

Hi Sashali


Do you know when they are going to make a final decision about passing or rejecting this bill ?

Thanks

 

[taleodor]

Conservatives were initially going to pass this bill completely around September this year.

 

[sashali78]

Hi Sashali


Do you know when they are going to make a final decision about passing or rejecting this bill ?

Thanks

As Taleodor mentioned they planned to pass it ASAP, before fall. However, right now it looks like tge schedule is being delayed (in fact there is no longer a time schedule even for second reading). I am not if that's because of the objections its facing or not, but its definitely a good sign.

 

[maza]

i am all hope it does not pass... the point i am fearing is that they will pass it after doing some changes, but not the time , which is what most of us care about..

 

[sashali78]

i am all hope it does not pass... the point i am fearing is that they will pass it after doing some changes, but not the time , which is what most of us care about..

Bill C-24 will be passed for sure. Question is what changes will be implemented into it - pre-PR time is the most illogical part of the Bill so I believe it can be changed.