TELL THEM HOW IMPORTANT IT IS
Animals and housing: elected representatives must hear from you!
This issue is a priority for us all:
Let’s ask all parties to make it an election promise
Please take 2 minutes right here and now to call your MNA.
This small action today can have a big impact on access to housing for all citizens living with companion animals.
Please have your phone ready, it will ring!
One click puts you in touch with your MNA’s constituency office or answering machine.
Here’s a useful checklist for your conversation
or to guide the message you will leave on the answering machine:
Hello, my name is ______________ and I live in the constituency you represent. I’m calling today to ask you to make a commitment to put an end to a housing accessibility issue that affects a large part of the population: access to housing for people living with animals.
This is a very important issue for me because: (choose which applies)
I am personally affected by this issue.
This is so crucial that it’s an important election issue for me.
I plan to vote in 2026 for a party that will commit to abolishing no-pet clauses.
More than half of Quebec families have a dog or cat.
Finding an affordable home where animals are welcome is proving extremely difficult.
The situation disproportionately affects low-income families, the elderly and people suffering from loneliness, whose animal is sometimes their only family.
Children’s attachment to their animals is beneficial to their development.
Many children suffer the trauma of being separated from their animal because of no-pet clauses in rental housing.
Families who adore their animal and take very good care of them are forced to part with them because they can’t find animal-friendly housing.
This is one of the main causes of animal abandonment.
The situation is so serious that there are even documented cases of victims of family violence who postpone fleeing their abuser because they are unable to find housing that accepts their animal, who is an important source of emotional support for them.
This is a matter of social justice.
No-pet clauses have been abolished in France and Ontario.
The government has stalled the progress of Bill 494, which would have abolished these clauses, even though a petition with over 33,000 signatures was submitted to the National Assembly.
Please discuss this issue within your party so that it is treated with the seriousness it merits at the National Assembly. I’m counting on your support.
