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Just emailed my MP for the first time re: Canada's response to the US immigration clusterfuck/asylum/the Safe Third Country Agreement. I'd meant to do it earlier, but set it aside because it was the middle of the week. Now things have, uh, escalated.
It helped that I stumbled across a form letter. Had to modify it a little, but that's okay. Fucked with my anxiety like whoa, of course, but less than it would have if I'd had to write something from scratch.
I should call as well but that will have to wait. (Maybe tomorrow?) I can't call at home, that's the problem, because someone might overhear me. But we'll see.
I just want to bang my head against a wall, honestly. I feel like everything is falling down around me. This immigration thing and the clusterfuck happening Stateside is just one part of it. This has also been a horrible week for Indigenous issues in Canada - the comments Trudeau made in Saskatoon were bloody disrespectful, not to mention everything else that has been happening, the pipelines through First Nations land, the suicide crisis, all of it. I need to put together an email about this, but there's just too much. I guess I should concentrate on the pipeline issue. That affects my municipality directly, so it's more likely that anything I have to say on it will be taken seriously - unlike anything else that is First Nations specific, considering the response to that would probably be like "lol why do you care" (in different words, of course).
But since I'm in such a conservative province, it's likely that anything I have to say will just be dismissed, goddamn. But I have to try anyway. I'd like to just scream THIS SHIT IS UN-CANADIAN but, uh, that would be even less effective, heh.
It's just too much.
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It helped that I stumbled across a form letter. Had to modify it a little, but that's okay. Fucked with my anxiety like whoa, of course, but less than it would have if I'd had to write something from scratch.
I should call as well but that will have to wait. (Maybe tomorrow?) I can't call at home, that's the problem, because someone might overhear me. But we'll see.
I just want to bang my head against a wall, honestly. I feel like everything is falling down around me. This immigration thing and the clusterfuck happening Stateside is just one part of it. This has also been a horrible week for Indigenous issues in Canada - the comments Trudeau made in Saskatoon were bloody disrespectful, not to mention everything else that has been happening, the pipelines through First Nations land, the suicide crisis, all of it. I need to put together an email about this, but there's just too much. I guess I should concentrate on the pipeline issue. That affects my municipality directly, so it's more likely that anything I have to say on it will be taken seriously - unlike anything else that is First Nations specific, considering the response to that would probably be like "lol why do you care" (in different words, of course).
But since I'm in such a conservative province, it's likely that anything I have to say will just be dismissed, goddamn. But I have to try anyway. I'd like to just scream THIS SHIT IS UN-CANADIAN but, uh, that would be even less effective, heh.
It's just too much.
This entry was originally posted at http://yuuago.dreamwidth.org/3537506.html. You can comment here or at the original entry.