Please write to Members of Parliament to ask for:
1) a letter of moral support to post online,
2) a review of FM & ME/CFS by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health,
3) a motion to forever and officially declare May 12th as an Awareness Day for FM and M.E. / CFS,
Here is the motion & vote being proposed by Conservative MP Rick Dykstra, #292 on the order paper:
"That, in the opinion of the House, the government should designate the
twelfth day of May as Fibromyalgia and Myalgic Encephalomyelitis / Chronic
Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day and should raise public awareness of issues
surrounding these syndromes and empower the estimated one million
Canadians who suffer from these syndromes."
What FM-CFS Canada has done:
1. FM-CFS Canada wrote to every MP in February asking for moral support and a May 12th vote..
2. We met Conservative MP Rick Dykstra, a member of the Parliamentary Health Committee,
and he asked the Chair to include FM & ME/CFS on their agenda, click here to see more.
3. We asked MP Rick Dykstra for a House of Commons motion & vote to recognise May 12th, he will!.
4. Last year, we asked the Senate to pass a motion recognizing May 12th, they did.
5. Made an easy-to-use list of all MPs email addresses. Follow link further down this page.
A sample letter to send with your email.
Federal Members of Parliament, by Party:
Standing Committee on Health (HESA) members
If you want to write to the Health Minister
Write to the Federal Health Minister, please nicely tell him our community needs support and research.
(remember, the Conservative Party isn't responsible for ignoring us for the past dozen years)
Here is the Health Minister's email address: The Honourable Tony Clement
Provincial Members, by Province:
- British Columbia MPP/MLA list
Email: The Honourable George Abbott, Minister of Health
Email: Honourable Ida Chong, Minister of Community Services, for Seniors' and Women's Issues
- Alberta MPP/MLA list
Email: The Honourable Iris Evans , Health and Wellness
- Saskatchewan MPP/MLA list
Email: Honourable Len Taylor, Minister of Health
Email: Honourable Graham Addley, Minister of Healthy Living Services
- Manitoba MPP/MLA list
Email: Honourable Tim Sale, Manitoba Health
- Ontario MPP/MLA list (a big file that lists every Party's MPP)
Email: Honourable George Smitherman, Minister of Health and Long-Term Care
- Québec MPP/MLA list
Email: onourable Philippe Couillard, Minister of Health and Social Services
- New Brunswick MPP/MLA list
Email: onourable Brad Green, Minister of Health
- Nova Scotia MPP/MLA list
Email: Honourable Chris d'Entremont, Minister of Health
- Prince Edward Island MPP/MLA list
Email: Honourable Chester Gillan, Minister of Health
- Newfoundland and Labrador MPP/MLA list
Email: Honourable Tom Osborne, Health and Community Services
Email: Ross Wiseman, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister
- All Provincial Pages
More than 100 Federal politicians wrote with their support in 2004.
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