JUNK MAIL JUNKED

Shortly after “MP junk mail” received a Teddy waste award, a Liberal MP put forward a motion to stop MPs from mailing flyers outside of their own ridings. The CTF quickly e-mailed our supporters across the country and encouraged them to let their MP know that taxpayers didn’t want to fund their junk mail campaigns, let alone keep receiving them. CTF supporters bombarded their MP’s offices with calls, faxes, e-mails and letters demanding they vote in favour of the bill. Although Conservative MPs voted against the measure, it still passed 140-137 with the support of the Opposition parties.

MPs are no longer allowed to mail junk flyers to ridings outside their own saving taxpayers $10 million a year and a few trees in the process.