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Open Letter to Parliament (Feb 20)
We need to help Canadian politicians understand what is at risk if the proposed changes to the NWPA are passed into law.


Send your letter in one click at Sierra Club's website, here, or, download our open letter to Parliament, and send it to the below email addresses.

Write your elected Member of Parliament and Members of the Parliamentary committee for Transport Infrastructure and Communities, Finance Committee. List as follows, copy and paste into your email.

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(For a clearer picture on who's who on the committees, click here.)

Feel free to also send your letter to:

Key Points for Letter Writing

Explain your views about the critical importance of protecting our heritage right of navigation and safeguarding the health of Canada's waterways.

Explain that removing the legal requirement for assessment of the environmental impacts of navigation on Canadian waterways will put thousands of rivers in Canada at risk.

Explain that you are extremely offended by the actions of the government of Canada, in seeking to remove the public access to and environmental protection of waterways through.

Explain that this is an assault on the rights of Canadians, an assault on the environment, and a very serious breach of public trust.

Our Position: Some Things We're Saying

The Canadian Rivers Network (CRN) is demanding that the federal Government withdraw the proposed amendments to the Navigable Waters Protection Act (NWPA) that are currently contained in Part 7 of the Budget Implementation Act. This is not a budget issue, and should be treated as a separate piece of legislation and require proper stakeholder consultation.

Any changes to the NWPA must occur in the broader context of a comprehensive reform of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act, due to occur in the spring of 2009. Such changes should be informed pursuant to consultation with environmental, paddling, ecotourism, as well as fishing and hunting groups.

If the federal Government decides to pursue these amendments, then the CRN demands that each of the Opposition parties publicly state their position on this issue.

Specifically, the CRN requests confirmation that each Opposition party is opposed to these amendments, and that they would repeal such changes if they were to form the next government.