Document Shows Top Items the Public Has Contacted the Prime Minister About

The Canadian flag flies near the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on June 17, 2020. (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press)

The Liberal government’s approach to COVID-19 and climate change, seal hunting, and the governor general are some of the topics Canadians write most about to the prime minister, a document submitted on Jan. 30 to the House of Commons shows.

The document, a copy of which was obtained by The Epoch Times, was issued by the government in response to an inquiry by Conservative MP Marty Morantz.

It lists the top 10 issues in terms of correspondence volume and are classified along types and formats. The two types of correspondence are indicated as “regular” and “campaign.” As for formats, there are “paper/fax” and “email.”

COVID-19, specifically the government’s approach to the pandemic, topped the list for regular correspondence for both email and paper forms. Altogether, the prime minister was contacted nearly 155,000 times over this issue.

Related issues of “COVID-19 vaccine” and federal relief measures for COVID-19 collectively accounted for over 30,000 pieces of regular correspondence by email.

Trudeau also received 37,400 emails on the topic of “Truck Convoys,” a probable reference to the trucker-led Freedom Convoy protest of winter 2022.

For the campaign type of correspondence, “Governor General” topped the list for contacts by paper, with 172,900 pieces of correspondence, and “seal hunt” was the number one item of contacts by email, with 359,043 pieces.

Canadians are also concerned about issues ranging from the protection of species at risk (279,367 pieces of correspondence) to the government’s approach to climate change (208,266), to “peace in Palestine and Israel” (189,975).

The issue of the coronavirus, specifically “Government’s Approach” and “Federal Relief Measures,” also account for over 92,000 and 91,000 pieces of email campaign correspondence.

The prime minister also received over 14,000 pieces of paper correspondence regarding the treatment of Falun Gong practitioners.

Adherents of the Falun Gong meditation practice have been targeted for torture, sexual abuse, and live organ harvesting in an ongoing persecution launched by the Chinese Communist Party in July 20, 1999.