iPolitics: Senators were flooded with thousands of your emails over Bill C-51

Senators received thousands of letters from all of you! Thank you for speaking up, Canada! Let's keep up the fight until this reckless bill is repealed. We're demanding all party leaders to commit to repeal it, take action now at KillC51.ca Article by Kristie Smith for iPolitics Many senators say they’ve been stunned by the overwhelming flood of email they’ve received over C-51, the highly controversial Harper government security bill that passed a Senate vote earlier in the month.

The vast majority of the messages expressed firm opposition to the legislation; words like “horrified” and “terrified” came up frequently.

Senator Percy Downe of P.E.I. reports having received 6,000 email messages on the bill, 150 from his home province.

“Normally on an issue of importance I might get 20 or 30 at the most from PEI, so this was a lot more,” he said.

Senator Joan Fraser received approximately 3,100 messages about C-51, while former RCMP officer Senator Larry Campbell only reported receiving a few hundred.

Senator Mobina Jaffer, an international activist for human and women’s rights, has received a whopping 10,000 email messages since May and they continue to trickle in, even though the bill is out of the Senate now.

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