Sample letter to send to candidates in 2019 election

“To Member of Parliament candidates of [name of riding]

I will be voting in the next election.

I believe all Canadians deserve to have access to a family doctor and to see specialists in a reasonable time.  Long waiting lists are hurting Canadians.

1.  I support the federal government funding more residency training for doctors, and that the funding be transferred to provinces with a requirement that it be used to create more residency positions for all qualified Canadians doctors educated either in Canada or abroad.
2. The federal government must also reinstate the requirement for a Labour Market Impact Assessment (LMIA) for all foreign visa applications for doctors pursuing residency training.  The LMIA requires employers to prove that there is no Canadian citizen or permanent resident who is able and willing to take the residency training job and that Canadian interests will not be negatively affected before a visa can be issued to a foreigner. Currently foreign countries, including Saudi Arabia, have over 1,000 of their citizens training in Canadian hospitals taking jobs that could be filled by Canadians. After training, these individuals return to their home country, and do not help alleviate the doctor shortage in Canada.  The current policy favours profit and foreign interests over what is best for Canadians.  Scarce medical training resources must be used to train Canadian doctors who will serve the Canadian public.

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Name:

Address:”

How to Deliver this letter

It is most effective to drop your letter off at the campaign office of the candidate.  Second most effective is mailing.  Third most effective is emailing.

Personalizing the letter also makes it more effective.

You can find the candidates in your riding:

> Go to elections.ca

> English

> Enter postal code on Rt side

4th blue box for who are candidates in my electoral district

Email addresses are not posted for all the candidates, but if you have decided to email, the Canadian Medicine Association (CMA) has created a box for your message which will send your message to all the candidates in your riding.

https://healthadvocates.cma.ca/action/email-your-candidates?fbclid=IwAR1_cgrZIufVVimERsh9mq4oXIdlC-MWtd-ihHJSWFyUjL9w-xCgxrniFsA

Like us, CMA is lobbying for more residency positions.  They are asking for other things as well.  We advise you to cut down and focus the issues to the two issues above as shorter is often better.  So delete the CMA text and replace with your own.  Then hit send.