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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Yes a good initiative but given the associated developments in our respective countries perhaps a two pronged initiative – one global and a second local/national -- would have been more useful. There are several parallel initiatives currently underway in Canada in response to the execrable Harper governments hyper-execrable Bill C: 51 and it would be nice if there was international reinforcement support for these alongside this global initiative.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org [mailto:governance-request@lists.igcaucus.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ian Peter<br><b>Sent:</b> June 6, 2015 11:19 AM<br><b>To:</b> governance@lists.igcaucus.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [governance] #UnfollowMe<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Worthy of support and widespread dissemination. Nice to see Amnesty International supporting this cause. </span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Thank you for signing our #UnfollowMe petition to end indiscriminate mass surveillance. We’ll deliver your signatures to leaders in the months ahead, and use your voices to demand urgent action.<br><br>Together, we can stop governments hoovering up all our personal data – our emails, internet searches, voice calls, webcam images and so much more. We can pressure leaders to ensure surveillance of communications is the exception, not the rule. It should only happen when it’s targeted, based on sufficient evidence of wrongdoing, and authorised by a strictly independent authority, such as a judge.<br><br>Please share this petition with your friends using the link below, and tweet your support using the hashtag #UnfollowMe.<br><br><a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/action-unfollowme-tell-governments-to-ban-mass-surveillance/">https://www.amnesty.org/en/action-unfollowme-tell-governments-to-ban-mass-surveillance/</a> <br><br>Thank you again for taking action – change only happens when people like you take a stand.</span><span style='font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>