e-4450 (Culture and heritage)

Petition to the Government of Canada

• Instead of tackling backlogs in Canadian passport offices, the federal Liberals have chosen to spend taxpayer dollars erasing iconic national symbols that are uniquely Canadiana, such as Terry Fox, trailblazing women's rights advocate Nellie McClung, and the Vimy Ridge Memorial;
• The Liberals removed a portrait of Terry Fox - a young man who ran halfway across Canada on one leg to raise awareness about cancer, and replaced it with an image of a man raking leaves;
• The Liberals have removed Nellie McClung, a women's rights pioneer and a member of the 'Famous Five' who championed for women to legally be recognized as persons under the law in Canada, and replaced it with a boy swimming in a lake; and
• The Liberals removed the Vimy Ridge Memorial from Canadian passports, which recognized 3,598 Canadian troops who were killed on the battlefield, and replaced it with an image of a squirrel eating a nut.