It is postage free by law to send mail in Canada to Parliamentarians. For addresses to send your own letters: House of Commons, Senate.
This feels more useful for conveying my thoughts than participating in online consultations, where the questions are often frustrating. A hand-written letter is in theory harder to aggregate and ignore.
I’ve written nine so far.
- Karina Gould (you and all women deserve better than this)
- Evan Solomon (no thank you to the environment-destroying plausible sentence machine)
- Joël Lightbound (Canada Post is supposed to serve Canadians, not make profit)
- Yasir Naqvi (none of the tiny economic tweaks you’re bragging about help the people in Ottawa who are in obvious need)
- Leah Gazan (fan letter!)
- Senator Simons (fan letter!)
- Sean Fraser (instead of retiring to spend time with your family, you’re introducing criminal justice legislation that would make Stephen Harper proud)
- Gary Anandasangaree (if people are being released from custody angrier than when they came in, you’re failing at your job)
- Gary Anandasangaree (if you’re upset about historical RCMP surveillance of Indigenous peoples, I have some bad news for you about the contemporary RCMP)
18 May 2026: Steven Guilbeault and François-Philippe Champagne
Two letters today. The originals are written by hand, under my full name.
(Earlier thoughts on the GHG regs.)
19 May 2026: the Parliamentary Budget Officer
Today, a letter to the Parliamentary Budget Officer! This one I did not hand-write.
31 May 2026: Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security
Today, a letter to the House of Commons committee studying Bill C-22 (by email to the clerk).
2 June 2026: Standing Committee on Public Safety and National Security
I learned by watching today’s committee meeting on Bill C-22 that briefs had not been distributed to committee members because of delays in translation, although the government intends to proceed with clause-by-clause on Thursday anyway. A Liberal member of the committee invited submissions directly to members’ email addresses, so I did something up dans les deux langues.