Defend Our Rights and Freedoms

The Harper Conservatives introduced a new anti-terrorism bill that is invasive, overreaching and dangerously vague. Acts of terrorism are a threat that must be addressed, but C-51 is not primarily an anti-terrorism law. We already have anti-terror laws. 

See Elizabeth's press release: “The words found under the definition of ‘activities,’ which affect the ‘security of Canadians,’ are so broad that this can apply to almost any activity, including nonviolent civil disobedience. This could treat peaceful protesters as potential terrorists.”

Toronto Star Green Party Leader Elizabeth May is "the only opposition MP with enough guts to critique the content of the Conservative government’s new anti-terror bill".

Green MPs continue to defend civil liberties in the House of Commons.  Stand with Elizabeth May today — add your name.

Tell your MP that sacrificing individual rights and freedoms is not the solution to the threat of terrorism.

Who's signing

Galiano Coffee Co.
M Fran McIninch
Barbara Wuhrer
Ursula Litzcke
Jim Fidler
Diana Mitchell
Barbara de Burgh
Jan Fenby
Anthony Britneff
Andrea Jones
June Pitcher
Siobhan Doyle
Peter Reiner
Audrey Clarke
Christopher Gix
Ronald Fritz
Darren Snelgrove
Brian Ferguson
Jeanette Campbell
Jessie Mantle
Donna Robinson
David Olsen
peter Codling
Vicki Postl
Geoff Craven
Denis Jesson
Bristol Foster
169 signatures

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  • Galiano Coffee Co.
    signed 2015-03-29 08:38:31 -0700
  • Galiano Coffee Co.
    @GalianoCoffeeCo tweeted link to this page. 2015-03-29 08:38:21 -0700
  • Galiano Coffee Co.
    posted about this on Facebook 2015-03-29 08:38:20 -0700
    Sign the petition: Defend Our Rights and Freedoms
  • M Fran McIninch
    signed 2015-03-29 08:34:07 -0700
    Thank you for taking the stand against the “anti terror bill”
  • Barbara Wuhrer
    signed 2015-03-29 08:33:13 -0700
  • Ursula Litzcke
    signed 2015-03-29 08:25:30 -0700
    This is not DEMOCRACY anymore. Why do the MPs not just walk out ??
  • Jim Fidler
    signed 2015-03-29 08:20:25 -0700
  • Diana Mitchell
    posted about this on Facebook 2015-03-29 07:56:15 -0700
    Sign the petition: Defend Our Rights and Freedoms
  • Diana Mitchell
    signed 2015-03-29 07:55:24 -0700
    Freedom of speech is part of our “Canadian way” of life. Bill C 51 would disallow freedom of speech. It would make Canadians into strangers to what the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects as fundamental democratic principles by which we have lived since long before we felt it necessary TO have the Charter. We Canadians do not ‘buy’ the current government’s seeming belief that we need protection from terrorism. We already have as much legal and legislated ‘protection’ as we need. I say “NO” to Bill C 51. It is a travesty.
  • Barbara de Burgh
    signed 2015-03-29 07:51:03 -0700
  • Jan Fenby
    signed 2015-03-29 07:42:57 -0700
  • Anthony Britneff
    signed 2015-03-29 07:17:14 -0700
  • Andrea Jones
    signed 2015-03-29 07:16:29 -0700
  • June Pitcher
    signed 2015-03-29 07:15:00 -0700
  • Siobhan Doyle
    signed 2015-03-29 07:09:43 -0700
  • Peter Reiner
    signed 2015-03-29 07:07:29 -0700
  • Audrey Clarke
    signed 2015-03-25 19:30:08 -0700
  • Christopher Gix
    signed 2015-03-15 16:52:16 -0700
    We should not trust the Conservatives, or any future government, to use the broad powers of Bill C-51 only as the authors have suggested the powers will be used. The vague mandate of addressing “threats to security” can easily be twisted into the legalization of oppression or toward the outright criminalization of political dissent.
  • Ronald Fritz
    signed 2015-03-15 10:10:44 -0700
  • Darren Snelgrove
    signed 2015-03-15 07:24:03 -0700
    More prisons, more prisoners more laws…in an increasingly less violent world…Harper is nuts. Das Furer has lost his mind!
  • Brian Ferguson
    signed 2015-03-14 21:26:27 -0700
    We need to vote the Conservatives out of power and put a stop to all this fascist silliness.
  • Jeanette Campbell
    signed 2015-03-14 20:20:52 -0700
    Way past the time for the “dictator” of Canada Harper to step off his pedestal along with his corporate lobbyist snakes.
  • Jessie Mantle
    signed 2015-03-14 17:29:41 -0700
  • Donna Robinson
    signed 2015-03-14 17:05:57 -0700
  • David Olsen
    signed 2015-03-14 15:01:28 -0700
    As Benjamin Franklin said, " Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety".
  • peter Codling
    signed 2015-03-14 11:15:30 -0700
    Do you think Harper could go as far as a FALSE FLAG ATTACK , to make terror more real to Canadians, To your knowledge, is there a probability, that a false flag attack has occurred and where?
  • Vicki Postl
    signed 2015-03-14 11:02:00 -0700
  • Geoff Craven
    signed 2015-03-14 10:59:16 -0700
  • Denis Jesson
    signed 2015-03-14 10:39:05 -0700
  • Bristol Foster
    signed 2015-03-14 09:28:45 -0700