本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛Dear MP Iqra Khalid,
My name is John Smith and I am living in Erin Mills community. In 2015, I elected you to present us and show our voices at Ottawa. At that time, I didn't like Liberal Party, but I elected you. This was because I believed you were a smart and effective person who really loved our community and would use the power to present us and make our community better and better.
In these days, from news papers and internet, I learned about your Motion 103 which to condemn Islamophobia.According to Motion 103, the government is requested to:
(a) recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear;
(b) condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination and take note of House of Commons’ petition e-411 and the issues raised by it; and
(c) request that the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage undertake a study on how the government could
(i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia...
(ii) collect data to contextualize hate crime reports and to conduct needs assessments for impacted communities, and present its findings and recommendation within 240 calendar days...
After reading these sentences, I found I don't understand why you raised this motion. Raising such motion is totally wasting your time as a MP of Erin Mill community. The reasons are
1. "freedom of conscience and religion", and "freedom of association" are the fundamental rights of every Canadian, according to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms;
2. "Every individual", regardless of religion, "has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law", as stated by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms;
3. Hate crime is already written in the Criminal Code of Canada.
And, in your motion, you mentioned "Islamophobia" twice. Why do you only mention religion Islam? Is this because of your personal religion belief? As you know, Erin Mills community is NOT an Islam ONLY community. People who are living here have different religion beliefs, like Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and etc. According to Statistics Canada, in 2013 there were 326 police-reported hate crimes motivated by hatred of a religion or religious group. The hate-motivated crimes targeting the Muslim religion reported by police in 2013 is not of the biggest number, comparing to hate crimes targeting other religions.
About Islamophobia, as I mentioned above, in Canada, we already have enough methods to protect all people from fear of hate. I say ALL PEOPLE, it means Islamist are included. I discussed your motions with many of my friends who are living in Erin Mills community too. Almost all of them believe your purpose of the motion is to give additional benefit to the religion of your PERSONAL BELIEF. Do you have any evidences to prove that Islam is the largest victim of hate crime in Erin Mills community, or in Canada? If you do not have such evidences, we will question your purpose.
The most important concern that we have is your motion will hurt FREE SPEECH. As a human being, I have my rights to my own feelings, be it happiness, love, hate, and fear. The idea of the government manipulating my feelings, and suppressing the expression of my feelings just reminds me of fascism and communism, not a democratic Canada as a beacon of freedom and liberty respected by the whole world.
Honestly, before you raised your Motion-103, I believed elected you as my MP was a very right decision. However, if you cannot contribute your effort 100% for the community and keep doing a lot of useless things to waste your power got from us, we would not check your name again in next election.
Finally, please WITHDRAW YOUR MOTION-103.
Thank you,
John Smith, an Erin Miss voter更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
My name is John Smith and I am living in Erin Mills community. In 2015, I elected you to present us and show our voices at Ottawa. At that time, I didn't like Liberal Party, but I elected you. This was because I believed you were a smart and effective person who really loved our community and would use the power to present us and make our community better and better.
In these days, from news papers and internet, I learned about your Motion 103 which to condemn Islamophobia.According to Motion 103, the government is requested to:
(a) recognize the need to quell the increasing public climate of hate and fear;
(b) condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination and take note of House of Commons’ petition e-411 and the issues raised by it; and
(c) request that the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage undertake a study on how the government could
(i) develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia...
(ii) collect data to contextualize hate crime reports and to conduct needs assessments for impacted communities, and present its findings and recommendation within 240 calendar days...
After reading these sentences, I found I don't understand why you raised this motion. Raising such motion is totally wasting your time as a MP of Erin Mill community. The reasons are
1. "freedom of conscience and religion", and "freedom of association" are the fundamental rights of every Canadian, according to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms;
2. "Every individual", regardless of religion, "has the right to the equal protection and equal benefit of the law", as stated by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms;
3. Hate crime is already written in the Criminal Code of Canada.
And, in your motion, you mentioned "Islamophobia" twice. Why do you only mention religion Islam? Is this because of your personal religion belief? As you know, Erin Mills community is NOT an Islam ONLY community. People who are living here have different religion beliefs, like Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh and etc. According to Statistics Canada, in 2013 there were 326 police-reported hate crimes motivated by hatred of a religion or religious group. The hate-motivated crimes targeting the Muslim religion reported by police in 2013 is not of the biggest number, comparing to hate crimes targeting other religions.
About Islamophobia, as I mentioned above, in Canada, we already have enough methods to protect all people from fear of hate. I say ALL PEOPLE, it means Islamist are included. I discussed your motions with many of my friends who are living in Erin Mills community too. Almost all of them believe your purpose of the motion is to give additional benefit to the religion of your PERSONAL BELIEF. Do you have any evidences to prove that Islam is the largest victim of hate crime in Erin Mills community, or in Canada? If you do not have such evidences, we will question your purpose.
The most important concern that we have is your motion will hurt FREE SPEECH. As a human being, I have my rights to my own feelings, be it happiness, love, hate, and fear. The idea of the government manipulating my feelings, and suppressing the expression of my feelings just reminds me of fascism and communism, not a democratic Canada as a beacon of freedom and liberty respected by the whole world.
Honestly, before you raised your Motion-103, I believed elected you as my MP was a very right decision. However, if you cannot contribute your effort 100% for the community and keep doing a lot of useless things to waste your power got from us, we would not check your name again in next election.
Finally, please WITHDRAW YOUR MOTION-103.
Thank you,
John Smith, an Erin Miss voter更多精彩文章及讨论，请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net