441-02401 (Justice)

Whereas:

• The homeless in Canada are mistreated and discriminated against as a matter of routine;
• Crimes against them go unpunished, ignored. At the same time they are falsely accused;
• Many NGO groups and government agencies have been using Band-Aid methods to help;
• Many studies have shown that housing them and helping them directly would be less costly but the establishment refuses and has even fought against this advice; and
• Instead, a campaign of terror has been waged against them by police/security, the business community, and residential associations.

Therefore: We, the undersigned, Canadian citizens and residents, call upon the House of Commons in Parliament Assembled to implement a federal law making it illegal to discriminate against any homeless person in this country - Making it illegal to confiscate their private property, arbitrarily forcing them to move from public property when they have nowhere to go, and making it illegal to criminally harass them.