A MANDATE FOR ACTION

Arms Embargo Now Mandate Letter Deliveries

Enough lies and half measures. It is time to give the new government a mandate for action.

Communities across the country are stepping up to deliver a clear call to action to our MPs. We are delivering a Mandate Letter to our representatives – to explain the current status of the Canada-Israel Arms Trade, and to push them towards the steps needed for our government to enact a true arms embargo.

DELIVER NOW DELIVER OFTEN! MPs listed on this map have been delivered the Arms Embargo Now Mandate and Briefing Note at least once. The more we visit them the more likely they are to take action, keep up the pressure!

NEW: ONLINE ACTION

Amplify the impact of the in-person mandate letter deliveries by flooding our MPs and ministers’ inboxes with the mandate letters demanding they take specific steps to sanction Israel with an arms embargo.

CONTEXT

Israel is bombing Iran. Israel is still bombing Palestine. Canada is still arming Israel. The demand is still Arms Embargo Now.

Since launching a year ago, the Arms Embargo Now campaign has changed the national narrative about Canada’s complicity in Israel’s genocide, and forced our leaders to take unprecedented steps to slow down our export of arms to Israel. But we have a long way to go.

When confronted during the election campaign about their complicity in Israel’s escalating genocide in Gaza, many politicians lied to their constituents, claiming that Canada has stopped exporting weapons to Israel. Unfortunately, for all their talk, the Liberals have left the vast majority of exports untouched

The truth is that the F35 bomber jets, Apache attack helicopters, and Elbit drones that Israel is using to murder Palestinians every day are made with Canadian technology and are full of Canadian parts. Weapons components from engines and mortars to missile circuit boards and sonar systems manufactured in dozens of Canadian factories cross-country are still being sent to Israel and used in their genocide.

As Israel’s siege and assault on Gaza reaches ever new levels of devastation, and as their escalating attacks on Iran are threatening hundreds of thousands more lives, it is time to push our government to sanction Israel in one of the most direct and material ways they have the power to – with a full two-way arms embargo.