Letter

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3. Write your letter

Below is a suggested letter. Please feel free to adapt, use or write your own. Please be polite. Written letters are better than emails, but all messages, including phone calls, count. Handwritten are even better. Do what you can and get friends and family to write also.

Dear (name of Candidate)
As a constituent in your riding for the federal election, I am asking you to consider supporting family law reforms in your campaign to get elected. Changes would be in the federal Divorce Act.
Your position on this matter would affect how I can many other parents vote in the October election. These changes so that both parents would remain in their children’s lives after divorce or separation were called for by Parliament in 1998 with the “For the Sake of the Child” report.
Equality of parents as a starting point in separation reduces conflict and cost to families. It is better for the children. It is the right thing to do. Personally, if those changes had been made, our family would have many thousands of dollars in additional assets to be spent on the children, rather than on legal conflicts which are unaffordable are not in children’s interests.
I urge you to speak out for parents and children during your campaign. In the past, many politicians have only listened to the interests of a legal profession monopoly which has made so much money from the current system.
The current family law system does not work for me, for my family, and for other parents and children. Equal parenting reforms seek to ensure that the system treats parents and their children with equality and respect.
Equal parenting presumptions are working in other states and countries of the world. I urge you to contact the Canadian Equal Parenting Council for further information on what works where and why Parliament should make these changes.
Thank you for listening to me. Please let me know if parents can count on you. I express best wishes to you and your family.

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