Five Sackvillians decided that “reading and reflecting” and cancelling Canada Day celebrations is not enough, and took it upon themselves to organize more hands-on action.
On July 1st, Shelly Colette, Erin Bardua, Elizabeth Stregger, Marit Munson, and Jane Dryden gathered pens and envelopes under the Bill Johnstone park gazebo so that locals could write a letter to their representatives demanding justice and action for the Indigenous people of Canada.
By the time the three-hour event was finished, over 325 letters were stuffed into the post box.
Here is one of the organizers, Erin Bardua, at 1:45PM yesterday:
The link to the letter template is available here. A stamp is not required to send a letter to members of the House of Commons.
Letters written yesterday were addressed to Dominic LeBlance (Beausejour MP), Carolyn Bennet (Minister of Crown-Indigenous Relations), David Lametti (Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada), and Marc Miller (Minister of Indigenous Services).
[CORRECTION: 1:06PM July 2nd 2021. A previous version of this story listed three organizers. There are five organizers, and the two missing names have been added.]
