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bE-mail the following message to each of the four federal Party Leaders:
Prime Minister Stephen Harper (Conservative)
Honourable Michael Ignatieff (Liberal)
Honourable Jack Layton (NDP)
Honourable Gilles Duceppe (Bloc Québécois)
I am writing to ask you to support Bill C-304, An Act to ensure secure, adequate, accessible and affordable housing for Canadians when it returns to the House for its third and final reading.
Bill C-304 would require governments at all levels to work with municipalities, Aboriginal communities, non-profit and private sector housing providers and organizations that represent people in need of housing to establish a long-overdue national housing strategy.
With up to 300,000 Canadians homeless, three million households living in unaffordable housing and a further three million households living in substandard housing, it is no wonder that the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights calls Canada’s homelessness and inadequate housing a “national emergency.”
Canadians look to you and your Party for leadership on this issue of crucial importance to the health of all Canadians. The time to act is now.
I call on you to stand proudly with all Leaders and all MPs to ensure that access to affordable quality housing becomes a reality for all Canadians.
Please make this happen. I look forward to hearing from you on this issue.
Thank you,
(Your Name)
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