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June 8, 2005

Urgent Action Alert

Please Support the National Marriage e-Referendum!

This may be our last best chance to show Parliament that a majority of Canadians oppose legalizing same-sex marriage.

Actions Requested:

1. Cast your vote on the National Marriage e-Referendum
   
2. Forward this alert on to at least ten others you know and urge them to vote on the referendum as well. It is important that as many Canadians as possible participate, no matter what their position on same sex marriage.

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Dear Friend of Marriage,

I am making this appeal to you because you have already shown that you are willing to stand to defend traditional marriage in Canada. You have signed our National Marriage Petition, e-mailed the Prime Minister through our Web site or in some other way have participated with us in defense of marriage and the family.

Now I am asking you to act once again in defense of traditional marriage in Canada.

Tens of thousands of Canadians have contacted the Prime Minister urging him to put the question of whether to legalize same sex marriage in Canada to a vote of the people under the Referendum Act of 1992. In fact, more than 45,000 of you have contacted him through our Defend Marriage Canada Project Web site alone.

But even with this outpouring of support, and even in the face of national opinion polls showing that a large majority of Canadians want this question put to a national referendum, the Prime Minister stubbornly refuses to do so. Instead, he is doggedly trying to ram a bill through Parliament, Bill C-38, which would legalize same-sex marriage in Canada.

This is why we are launching the National Marriage e-Referendum to give every Canadian the opportunity to make their voice heard on this critically important issue.

The language of the referendum is simple: “Shall Parliament pass bill C-38 to legalize same-sex marriage in Canada?” It is posted on a special Web site, www.referendumcanada.org, and we have tried to make this site as neutral on the issue as possible. For those still undecided, we even provide links to Web pages of groups that have taken positions both for and against Bill C-38.

The results of the referendum will be provided to every MP before the third reading vote on C-38.

Time to act may be very short!

The parliamentary situation is in a state of flux and the very continuation of this government is precarious at best. But we have to assume that the vote will come before Parliament rises for its summer recess at the end of June..

Please act today! Take a few minutes and cast your vote on the e-referendum and then contact at least ten others to urge them to also vote. It does not matter so much how they feel about this issue as it does that as many Canadians as possible participate.

If enough Canadians do participate, this referendum (and especially the publicity it would generate) can make the difference when the vote is as close as this one is likely to be.

Please do everything you can to make this effort a success. The very future of our country, and of our children and grandchildren, literally depends on whether we can preserve traditional marriage and the natural family in Canada.

Thank you for whatever you can do.

Sincerely,

Hon. Dr. Grant Hill, P.C.
Coordinator, Defend Marriage Canada Project

P.S. We need your financial support. Even though every one of us involved in directing United Families Canada and our Defend Marriage Canada Project is a volunteer, we still depend upon the generous contributions of people like you to support efforts such as this referendum. We still must pay for major expenses such as travel, copying, postage, supplies, maintaining our Web site and database, long distance phoning and so on.

In addition, we are providing financial support for important marriage litigation now ongoing in Newfoundland, New Brunswick and the Northwest Territories.

Please consider making as generous a contribution as you can to support our efforts. You can mail cheques to:

United Families Canada
1111 Davis Drive Unit #1 Suite #248
Newmarket, Ontario L3Y 9E5

Thank you for your support!

Please forward this on to others!