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Demand the Ontario Legislature Repeal Totalitarian Bill 89

Background on the Issue
Bill 89, or the Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act, 2017, passed by a vote of 63 to 23 on June 1 at Queen’s Park.

It allows the state to potentially take away children from parents who do not adopt the Liberal government’s delusional gender ideology and, in effect, it prevents couples who also reject this ideology from adopting or fostering children. While “gender identity” and “gender expression” are added as factors to be considered “in the best interests of the child,” no longer will the religious faith in which the parents are raising the child be considered as a factor. This bill furthers the government’s dangerous intrusion into the lives of families and their very homes, and it must be repealed by this government or the next.

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Bill 89 is unfair to us
Dear Member of Provincial Parliament [Recipient's name will be automatically inserted]:

I understand that the language in Bill 89, like the phrase “there is a risk that the child is likely to suffer emotional harm,” where emotional harm is defined as “anxiety, depression, withdrawal, self-destructive or aggressive behaviour, or delayed development,” is meant to protect the child by preventing future harm, but this language can be easily employed to justify the removal of children from any home where the parents think gender identity should match biological sex.

A case worker could defend their decision by saying there was a “risk” (which cannot be precisely quantified) that a child would probably suffer and wouldn’t get access to “treatment” in this home. The term "treatment" will likely be interpreted as the controversial practice of putting kids on cross-sex hormones, or a path to sex change surgery.

This clause is especially problematic when considered alongside other statements by the Minister of Children & Youth Services that indicate that if a parent does not affirm their child’s gender confusion, that is, in the Minister’s eyes, a form of child “abuse.”

Parents, then, are rendered near helpless if a case worker becomes intent on removing their children. They are at a distinct disadvantage when having to argue about hypothetical futures. Bill 89 disempowers parents and so we must resort to using one of the powers still afforded to us—lobbying our Members of Provincial Parliament to repeal the bill.

I would appreciate hearing your thoughts on this matter, [Recipient's name will be automatically inserted], and whether you are willing to stand up for parents by committing to repeal it at the first opportunity, whether by a private member's bill or a government bill.
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