e-3356 Health
Michelle Rempel Garner
Blood supply,Discrimination,Gays and lesbians,Men
July 27, 2021, at 4:27 p.m. (EDT)
Petition to the Government of Canada
  Whereas:
  
    The Canadian Blood Services is seeking urgent blood donations to prevent a blood shortage;
    The current government has promised to remove the deferral period for men who have sex with men to donate blood;
    By maintaining the deferral period, the government is complicit in stigmatizing gay men; and
    There are many countries around the globe that have adopted a lifestyle-based questionnaire and have lifted the ban on gay blood for examples, Argentina, Israel, Italy, Poland, Russia, Portugal, Spain, South Africa, Ukraine, Peru, Chile, Brazil, Bulgaria.
  
  
    We, the undersigned, Citizens and Residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to  lift the ban on gay men’s ability to donate blood.