I'm not an English major, I write it kind of like a normal letter. You don't have to sweat the formatting too much, but here's what I usually do.
The subject line I put in a nutshell what I want: "Re-write (or Reject) Bill C-2: Canada shouldn't mirror the American Surveillance State" is what I went with.
"Hello [Mr./Mrs./M./Mme.] [Lastname], "
is how you can start it of course with the appropriate choice for your MP.
You can start with polite formalities or an introduction if you don't want to start out of the gate with negativity. At some point before you finish the letter, you should state you are a resident of [neighborhood or town your MP is representing].
For negative items, in the second body paragraph opening you should clearly state what you are writing about. For me, it was, "I am writing today to express my disappointment in the first significant order of business being the Strong Borders Act (C-2), giving sweeping powers to the government to encroach upon Canadians' privacy and civil liberties." Positive items (thanking, commending, recommending, encouraging support for) you can do that in the same spot, at the beginning or anywhere between.
You should then state what you want, followed by the reasons why you want it. So here, write about the parts of the bill that feel like overreach and you want removed, like the mail inspection provisions, or digital data seizure provisions (Part 15). You can include what parts you think might be worth keeping or pursuing in another bill.
If you want to expand further, you can note what priorities you want your MP to put ahead (e.g. climate, affordability, economy, world affairs like Gaza and Ukraine, infrastucture, transport, etc.). Regardless of what they do with respect to a particular issue, MPs always want to know what their constituents find important to guide their future efforts.
If you want a follow-up you should state so in your correspondence. (Examples: "I would appreciate your follow-up", "I would appreciate a response", "Please get in touch at your best availability")
Lastly add your full name, address, postal code (to show you are from there) and optionally your phone number at the bottom.
There was this one youtube minigame (maybe it was a google homepage game? I don't remember) commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall Anniversary, with a wall you could break by moving the timeline bar back and forth. I can't find it anymore.
Analyzing the bill has me see it is trying to mimic America's surveillance state in way too many areas. That ick really outweighs the parts of the bills that I thought could be helpful, like allowing for export control inspections to catch auto theft.
I just wrote an email to my Liberal MP, asking them to reject or re-write this bill to vastly narrow its scope. It's still early in the process so there's plenty of time for it to be fixed.
Fair point, while I wouldn't like a Conservative government to expand on it, I read those sections but I don't consider it beyond the pale. My impression was it is more about removing slack in the process. There are many good arguments to maintain that slack, but that to me is a matter of debate, not a certain slide into fascism.
I'm not a fan of the bill, why it's the first thing the House gets to is concerning, but I'm trying to keep a level head while analyzing the bill and not get into an immediate frenzy.
The doubling-down on oil and using big-government to curb free-market renewables is a conscious choice from the UCP legislature and cabinet. Alberta has no one in Canada to blame but themselves for that.
Putin and Zelenskyy should take turns having "good conversations" with Trump, like throwing a frisbee of douchebag impotence back and forth to each other.
Most of it is fine on the border/tough on crime provisions, whatever.
The export inspections is good and will help with the car theft epidemic. (I don't own a car but I can understand communities being frustrated by our current laws not being able to respond effectively to theft rings).
The one part I am concerned about is Part 15 (Supporting Authorized Access to Information Act), a mandatory confidential pathway for electronic service providers to provide information to authorities. Even though "systemic vulnerabilities" are not meant to be introduced in that Act, I can't help imagine certain edge cases may serve as loopholes to install backdoors that are exploited by both our government and others.
I suppose it's worth noting that being more permissive with federation and a lower signup barrier was part of lemm.ee's philosophy. The shutdown is related to burnout from the moderation side. More permissive federation means more stress to mods/admins, since they have to deal with more questionable user behaviour. Often times defederation just comes out of not being able to handle the constant stream of reports of anti-social activity from particular servers.
If you want the Lemmy experience pre-Reddit exodus minus the communism, this seems like the place. Lemmy was less than 200 people at one point, look how we've grown.
To give Americans and International readers context, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police have a division that functions like the FBI/Europol (investigating national-scale crimes and co-ordinating provincial resources), but they also serve as local and/or state police where there is not one specific to that province, county, district or city.
Killing children, hospital patients, doctors, humanitarian aid workers, journalists and people who are just trying not to starve in Gaza are not behaviours we can tolerate as Canadians, so we should investigate if our dual-citizens took part in it. If not, then it's fine.
The certificate/signature part seems okay for verification.
It's the transferable virtual deeds being sold that are the scam. I could sell you a virtual deed to the Golden Gate Bridge right now, you could buy it but it doesn't really mean anything.
I don't estimate Trump and Musk's ability to say one day: "We have always been at war with each other"
Then the next: "We have always been friends with each other"...
But that said, this is looking to be quite a juicy feud.