Keeping the ball rolling

[BE20 Driver]

So if you want to let the politicians know that letting foreign pilots fly for Canadian companies isn't alright with us but didn't know who to contact here's a list.

Everyone politically responsible in some way for what is happening with foreign pilots is detailed below. I have listed who they are and what they are responsible for. Email addresses are at the bottom of the list for ease of adding them an email. I would think that if you spam all of these addresses in one shot, they may end up in a junk folder.

Some of them are French only so maybe someone who is more bilingual than I am can provide some sort of letter to go out in French.

PM Stephen Harper
Parliamentary secretary to the PM Dean Del Mastro
Minister of State and Chief Government Whip Gordon O'Connor
NDP Critic to the PM (everyone is a critic) Thomas Mulcair
Liberal Critic to the PM (for another few days) Bob Rae
Green Party Critic to the PM (isn't she the Green critic for everything?) Elizabeth May
Bloc Critic to the PM Louis Plamandon
Minister for Transportation, Infrastructure and Communities Denis Lebel
Minister of State for Transportation Steven Fletcher
Parliamentary Secretaries to the Minister of Transportation etc. Randy Kamp, Pierre Poilliever
NDP Critic for Transportation etc. Jasbir Sandhu
NDP Critic for Transportation etc. Olivia Chow
NDP Assistant critic for Transportation etc. Robert Aubin
Liberal Critic for Transportation etc. Joyce Murray
Liberal Critic for Transportation etc Denis Coderre
Minister of Industry Christian Paradis
Minister of State (under Industry) for Atlantic Canadian Opportunities (ie Canjet's business development minister)Gail Shea
Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Industry Mike Lake
NDP Critic for Industry Ryan Cleary
Liberal Critic for Industry Gerry Byrne
Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness (Also Canadian Border Services) Vic Toews
Parliamentary Secretary for Minister of Public Safety Candice Bergen
NDP Critic for Public Safety Brian Masse
Minister for Human Resources and Skills Development Diane Finley
Minister of Labour Lisa Raitt (I'm sure she sees the word pilot and auto-deletes emails)
Parliamentary Secretaries to the Minister of HRSD and to the Minister of Labour, Kellie Leitch
NDP Critic for Labour Alexandre Boulerice
NDP Critic for HRSDCChris Charlton
Liberal Critic for HRSDC Roger Cuzner
Bloc Critic for HRSDC Jean-Francois Fortin
NDP assistant critic for HRSDC Marjolaine Boutin-Sweet
NDP Critic for HRSDC dealing with EI Anne-Marie Day
Bloc Critic for HRSDC dealing with EI Jean-Francois Fortin
Minister of Immigration Jason Kenney
Parliamentary secretary to the Minister of Immigration Richard Dykstra
NDP Immigration critic Jinny Simms (was on PNP with Gilles)
Liberal Immigration critic Kevin Lamoureux (also on PNP with Gilles)
Bloc Immigration critic Maria Mourani
NDP Assistant critic for Immigration Sadia Groguhe

If you don't know who your MP is or how to find their address you can use this link: http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/Compilat ... x?Menu=HOC

Don't forget your senator
http://www.parl.gc.ca/Parlinfo/lists/se ... rrent=True

stephen.harper@parl.gc.ca
dean.delmastro@parl.gc.ca
gordon.oconnor@parl.gc.ca
thomas.mulcair@parl.gc.ca
bob.rae@parl.gc.ca
Elizabeth.May@parl.gc.ca
louis.plamondon@parl.gc.ca
denis.lebel@parl.gc.ca
Fletcher.S@parl.gc.ca
steven.fletcher@parl.gc.ca
randy.kamp@parl.gc.ca
pierre.poilievre@parl.gc.ca
Jasbir.Sandhu@parl.gc.ca
olivia.chow@parl.gc.ca
Robert.Aubin@parl.gc.ca
joyce.murray@parl.gc.ca
denis.coderre@parl.gc.ca
christian.paradis@parl.gc.ca
gail.shea@parl.gc.ca
mike.lake@parl.gc.ca
Ryan.Cleary@parl.gc.ca
gerry.byrne@parl.gc.ca
vic.toews@parl.gc.ca
candice.bergen@parl.gc.ca
brian.masse@parl.gc.ca
diane.finley@parl.gc.ca
lisa.raitt@parl.gc.ca
Kellie.Leitch@parl.gc.ca
Alexandre.Boulerice@parl.gc.ca
chris.charlton@parl.gc.ca
rodger.cuzner@parl.gc.ca
Jean-Francois.Fortin@parl.gc.ca
Marjolaine.Boutin-Sweet@parl.gc.ca
Anne-Marie.Day@parl.gc.ca
jason.kenney@parl.gc.ca
rick.dykstra@parl.gc.ca
Jinny.Sims@parl.gc.ca
kevin.lamoureux@parl.gc.ca
maria.mourani@parl.gc.ca
Sadia.Groguhe@parl.gc.ca

[slowstream]

Excellant job BE20!

Thanks for posting that!

[Gilles Hudicourt]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I have met with Alexandre Boulerice several times, because he is the MP to several of my Air Transat colleagues. He had accepted to meet them over this issue when they wrote to him to ask for help.

When they obtained an appointment to meet with Mr Boulerice, they asked me to come with them since I had a good understanding of the problem.

Mr Boulerice is the official opposition critic for Labor, so this is right down his line.

He is so far the only MP to have raised the TFWP issue in the House as it pertains to foreign pilots. He did not do it on the floor of the House to score public points and receive an evasive reply, but asked his questions in writing to the Government, in order to get a serious reply. And he did get his replies. He asked a long question which was put to the Immigration Minister and to the Labor Minister.

Here are the questions he asked and the replies he received:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/105 ... 202013.pdf

I met again with Mr Boulerice the day before yesterday with another one of my colleagues from his riding who had been laid off by Air Transat last fall, to update him on the situation.

He is willing to help. Anyone who wants to write to him to explain how they think the TFWP is wrong as it pertains to the pilot profession will find a sympathetic ear in Mr Boulerice, I can assure you.

Look at the replies the two ministers wrote to him, and if you think they were wrong, misleading or evasive, let Mr Boulerice know.

He is a down to earth guy who really understands the problem.

Gilles

[BE20 Driver]

I emailed a general info email to the Canada Labour Congress and received a reply. I would encourage others to contact them as well. The more people we have informed about this issue the better.

[AsheetMaDraws]

Thanks for the info, I've sent a bunch of them emails explaining
how the economy benefits from the extra work Sunwing provides
to a lot of other facets of the industry. Not to mention additional
tax revenue generated.
Great idea!!
Keep up the good work.

[AFIRS]

Rick Dykstra is my local MP!

I've been sending him e.mails regarding this with zero response.... I'll be printing this and dropping by his office.