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25 signatures so far! Petition created by: Olga O'Mara - Raven Let Us Continue To Say “Merry Christmas” Hello, My Friend and Heartfelt Welcome! Just a touch about what prompted this Petition. The beautiful country of Canada - its compassionate and big-hearted people, gave me as well as many other immigrants SHELTER, when refuge was desperately needed. They did let us "BE" in their country without restrictions or barriers (which we experienced in our Native Lands) by allowing us to: Speak freely our mind without being arrested, retain our traditions and our native languages, educate our children, and to continue to instil our customs. Teach our children our Religion (or a Religion of our choice), build Churches (and Schools) and let us make many personal choices, which were denied in our native lands. As a "THANK YOU NOTE" we, the new-comers to this wonderful Country, are TAKING AWAY the traditional CANADIAN celebration: CHRISTMAS. The End-of-the-year Holiday Time has different significance to many people: For some it means to have a few days "off" away from the business pressures they endured during the year. Others are busy closing their "Books", while many are just beginning to earn some income, because their business is "End-of-the-Year" oriented, and/or welcoming the NEW YEAR while many nationalities have their Religious Celebrations as well. And it happened that at this time of the year the Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus – the Son of God, who was educating people to be moral, virtuous, kind-hearted and compassionate to each other. Because, we-the people, do not follow this kind of teaching, finding ourselves facing many difficulties in our lives and consequently blame Christian CHRRISTMAS! Please, my Friend, sign this Petition and let the Government know that you do not agree to this extremely discourteous treatment of the host-people's inoffensive tradition and issue a "guide" to make people understand that this is not a suitable approach of showing amiability, respect and mutual affinity in our society which causes apartheid and confusion. Since there are no restrictions to other ethnic groups to the use of their traditional "titles" at the end-of-the-year festivities, so let the word "CHRISTMAS" to continue to be used as customary without criticism, sarcasm and belittling. Thank you. my Friend, for your precious time and MERRY CHRISTMAS to YOU and YOUR Family. Love and Peace Amongst Nations Olga O'Mara-Raven OlgaOmara777[at]gmail.com 25 have signed so far - help us get to 10,000.  We have achieved 0.25% of our goal. Let's keep going! Sign the petition! Details, Impact and Progress P E T I T I O N The Right Hon. Stephen Joseph Harper, P.C., M.P. Prime Minister of Canada Langevin Building 80 Wellington Street Ottawa ON K1A 0A6 We, the Undersigned Canadians, strongly object to the omitted use of the word CHRISTMAS in either written or spoken form at the end of the year and at other times. While virtually all ethnic-end-of-the-year festive days are referred to by their traditional names (e.g. Hanukkah, risdvo, roschdestvo, etc.) ONLY reference to the host nation’s traditional holiday (i.e. CHRISTMAS) is continually being suppressed and belittled. We petition for Your input in our predicament. (“Stealing Christmas” – The Toronto Sun, December 8, 2010 and "Giving Grinches a Kick", The Toronto Sun, December 9, 2010, by Mike Strobel Prompted this Petition). Comments Note: This service is provided as a service to TakingITGlobal Members. This petition does not necessarily represent the views of TakingITGlobal as an organization. |
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