Fwd: Goal: 3,000 signatures to Bring Zain Home

[Ruth Walmsley]

Dear BROKE folk and allies,

If you haven’t already, I invite you to sign this parliamentary petition on behalf of Zain Haq. I’ve known Zain for about 5 years, through our shared involvement in climate activism. And I’ve gotten to know his wife Sophie more recently through Zain. I was privileged to celebrate their wedding with them a couple years ago.

Zain and I have both engaged in non-violent civil disobedience, been arrested, and done jail time, along with 100’s of other people, for resisting the TMX pipeline. It is unfair that Zain has been singled out and punished in this way, and that Zain and Sophie have been forcibly separated, because of Zain’s non-violent climate activism. It seems un-called for, and I have witnessed the devastating effect this is having on both of them. Zain is honestly one of the gentlest, most peaceful people I have ever met, and I believe his deportation for peaceful climate activism was wrong, and does not reflect the values that I hold as a Canadian and that most Canadians stand for.

I hope you will join me in signing the petition to bring Zain home.

Thanks,

Ruth

From: Sophia Papp via ActionNetwork.org <info+sophia...@sg.actionnetwork.org>
Sent: October 26, 2025 3:30 PM
To: Rosemary Cornell <rosemary...@sfu.ca>
Subject: Goal: 3,000 signatures to Bring Zain Home

 

We have 2,859 signatures! <3 Let's get 3,000!!

Hello Rosemary, We are very close to getting 3,000 signatures for the Parliamentary petition to Bring Zain Home. . The official e-petition to the Minister of Immigration, Hon. Lena Metledge Diab, will be presented in the House of Commons in January 2026 ❤️ . IF YOU HAVE NOT SIGNED, please consider doing so ~ IF YOU HAVE SIGNED, I ask that you send this petition to 2 of your friends/family members <3 . OFFICIAL Petition to the Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship - BRING ZAIN HOME . 📣 Zain was deported from Canada January 2025 for nonviolent climate activism... which means I, as his spouse, am forced to choose between my husband and my home, Canada. 🤔😰 We only need 140 more signatures to get to 3,000! 💪 . Please Sign and Share <3 . Sophia, written from Karachi, Pakistan IG: @bringzainhome Sent via Action Network, a free online toolset anyone can use to organize. Click here to sign up and get started building an email list and creating online actions today. Action Network is an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes. We encourage responsible activism, and do not support using the platform to take unlawful or other improper action. We do not control or endorse the conduct of users and make no representations of any kind about them. You can unsubscribe or update your email address or change your name and address by changing your subscription preferences here.