e-3356 (Health)
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- The Canadian Blood Services is seeking urgent blood donations to prevent a blood shortage;
- The current government has promised to remove the deferral period for men who have sex with men to donate blood;
- By maintaining the deferral period, the government is complicit in stigmatizing gay men; and
- There are many countries around the globe that have adopted a lifestyle-based questionnaire and have lifted the ban on gay blood for examples, Argentina, Israel, Italy, Poland, Russia, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Ukraine, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Bulgaria.
- Open for signature
- May 28, 2021, at 4:27 p.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- July 27, 2021, at 4:27 p.m. (EDT)