ROSEMARY TO PM
Rosemary
Underwood
5 Onyx Lane
Stouffville, ON, Canada
L4A 1K3
905-642-0499
huru@sprint.ca
March 27. 2004
The
Hon. Mr. Paul Martin,
Prime Minister
Government of Canada
Ottawa, ON
K1A 0A6
Fax. # 613-941-6900
Dear Mr. Martin.
The last time I wrote was to congratulate you on your becoming Prime Minister of Canada and with the full intention of voting Liberal in the next election as my ancestors have done sine 1867.
What a profound disappointment awaited me!
I am part of a network of people, presently exceeding one million and growing rapidly, few of us ever having met face to face but bound together through the internet by one common goal – the preservation of family values, long considered to be the back-bone of Canadian civilization.
Bill C-250 and its unprecedented acceleration through parliament and the Senate Justice Committee, with literally hundred of groups and individuals who opposed it being denied permission to be heard, is a blatant affront to democracy.
I could list a dozen reasons why this bill should be defeated, none of them having anything to do with homophobia. The one closest to my heart, which no doubt motivates my personal vendetta against this bill, is primarily the lack of definition of the word “orientation”. My four-year-old grandson was the victim, raped and brutally beaten, by a pedophile with a particular sexual “orientation”, he simply preferred little boys. Bill C-250 was very deliberately and craftily designed to open the door to legalizing pedophilia and many other forms of deviant sexual behaviours.
But one which Michael Coren has expressed succinctly in today’s Toronto Sun is likely the most compelling reason why no government apart from totalitarian regimes would even consider passing it.
“Last
week, the largest school board in Quebec decided to ban blood donor clinics from
all of its schools and offices. The reason? The blood bank agency asks potential
donors a list of questions.
One of the many questions posed to men is whether they are gay and have been
sexually active. The openly gay vice-chairman of the board protested the
"homophobia" of the question.
As a result, the dangerously limited blood supply of this country will be
further hit. In other words, the essential surgical and health needs of
the people of Canada are considered less important than the chance of a
homosexual man being offended by a logical and essential question…………..
………..The tolerance gay people request, and deserve, was achieved long ago. And I applaud that. The debate now is about unquestioning affirmation. This applies to marriage, adoption and so many other areas of the social fabric of our lives”. (emphasis mine).
You, yourself have said recently, that a government’s first obligation is the protection of its citizens.
I am a Registered Nurse and have spent several years in an operating room and am thus very familiar with the life-saving properties of blood – and the lethal consequences of tainted blood.
The passage of Bill C-250 will have a profound effect on both the supply and safety of blood. Mr. Martin you are not protecting the citizens of Canada, you are exposing them to life-threatening situation to appease a particular group of lobbyists whose legitimate concerns have long since been addressed and now they are taking advantage of your weakness to promote a very dangerous hidden agenda.
If this evil law is permitted to pass it will certainly become an issue in the next federal election no matter when it is called. I know this because there are at least a million of my internet friends, spread from coast to coast, who will be highly motivated to do whatever is necessary to ensure the election of a Conservative government with the power to repeal or amend it.
Yours sincerely,
Rosemary Underwood, Reg.N., B.Sc.