e-696 (Foreign policy)
- Keywords
- 8545-421-87-02 Government Response to petitions concerning foreign policy
- Abduction
- Embassies and consulates
- Experts
- Foreign policy
- Negotiations and negotiators
Original language of petition: English
Petition to the Government of Canada
- Our government’s stated goal to Canadians regarding citizens kidnapped for ransom is that no ransom will be paid by the Canadian government so as to take the mark off Canadians so international, criminal kidnappers will not kidnap Canadians;
- Kidnappings give two coinages - money and terrifying people which increases likelihood ransoms are paid;
- When ransoms are off the table, the lives of kidnapped Canadians only have one coinage – terror. In these cases, the kidnappers do not need to keep the victim safe and abuse and often brutal, public murders for international viewing become the coinage;
- Kidnappers only stop when they are stopped; and
- Two Canadians were kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 2015 -2016 in the Philippines and 6 Canadians are currently held hostage.
- Open for signature
- November 29, 2016, at 10:55 a.m. (EDT)
- Closed for signature
- March 29, 2017, at 10:55 a.m. (EDT)
- Presented to the House of Commons
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Gord Johns
(Courtenay—Alberni)
June 13, 2017 (Petition No. 421-01510) - Government response tabled
- September 18, 2017