This isn't just about a proposed law in another country. It's about Canada's responsibility to uphold the international rules-based order and the human rights values it professes.

Politicians respond to two things: principled stance and public pressure. This letter campaign provides both. Here’s why your signature and voice are essential:

1. Canada's Stance is Incomplete. The government has taken steps toward recognizing Palestinian statehood. As the letter states, experts agree that such recognition is meaningless without concrete action to protect Palestinian lives and rights from imminent, severe threats. This Death Penalty Bill is that imminent threat. Our campaign demands Canada's policy be consistent and principled.

2. Targets the Most Vulnerable. The bill explicitly targets individuals under a military detention system that the UN and major human rights organizations have documented as fundamentally discriminatory and abusive. By introducing the death penalty here, it risks legalizing state execution based on evidence from torture and coerced confessions. Canada has a moral duty to speak for children, women, and the medically vulnerable highlighted in these reports.

3. Prevents Complicity. Canada maintains various forms of military, security, and judicial cooperation with Israel. Silence on this bill could be construed as tacit acceptance. To ensure Canada is not complicit in a system that could lead to extrajudicial executions, it must publicly draw a red line. Our letters make it a domestic political issue they cannot ignore.

4. Volume = Mandate. A Minister or MP can dismiss a single email. But a coordinated flood of constituent letters on the same, well-sourced issue signals a voting bloc that is informed, passionate, and watching. It moves the topic from a footnote in a briefing to an item that requires a public position and action.

5. Upholds International Law. This is a direct test of the international rules Canada claims to champion. The proposed bill, applied within an occupation, contravenes fundamental principles of justice and the right to life. By speaking out, we are urging Canada to defend the very system it relies on for global stability.

Your letter does more than protest; it calls Canada to live up to its promises. It connects the dots between recognizing a state and protecting its people from potential execution. It insists that Canadian diplomacy must be brave and consistent.

Send a letter now. Tell your representatives that true leadership means opposing the death penalty where it is most dangerous: in a system devoid of justice.