This is only part of the list of those who support change, real change to make the playing field truely equal

Now, the SIX STATEMENTS of the Collective Submission are approved with 118 family related signatures. This is not a petition. Those signatures are from people with experience & expertise relating to the family reality in Canada. A majority of the signatures are from members and/or staff and/or representatives of collectives involved either way with Families. The other signatures are mainly from people with direct experience relating to Broken Families & Family Law…

The signatures are from various groups: governmental & NGOs, mainstream & fringe, religious & secular, large & small, commercial & humanitarian, different ethnicities, different Faith, etc.

Although from various sources, the supporters of Shared Parenting & Mediation all agree that we need a legal & social structure that favors the presence of Both Parents & Extended Families in the Lives of Children. Family organizations that look at Families for all their members and that seek to get involved to favor the continuity of people’s belonging & involvement into their Families!

I, Réjean Bussières, have directed the 7 daily meetings, the completion of the Collective Submission & its delivery. I also collected all the signatures through meetings where the six statements were studied & questions were answered. About 3/4 of the people I met signed the Submission.

The Collective Submission, factual & scientific, proves the Public Support in favor of Shared Equal Parenting & Mediation in case of parental separation…

Truly Yours! In the Name of Family Justice! Faith-Hope-Love! Réjean Bussières

Collective Submission for Shared Parenting

- Enshrine the presumption of pro-equal alternating shared parenting, which includes joint custody, care and control, and guardianship.

- Implement a mandatory mediation program to enhance a non-adversarial divorce solution, and largely reduce the loading on the court system.

- Resolution of child custody, including awarding of sole custody, should only revert to the courts, when proven relevant criminal actions to the child, is evident by one or both parents.

- Remove all financial obligation by either of the parents to the other, by the concept of complete shared care and control of the children.

- Failing equal parenting, both parents costs of child raising and the income of both parents should be proportionally and equally considered in the financial settlement.

- Remove any increased and unaffordable financial burden to parents through new legal statuses. The current proposed plan is not financially neutral.

Adversarial process of the courts induces ongoing damage to all parties, parents, children, and extended families. A mandatory mediation program will enhance a non-adversarial divorce solution, and largely reduce the loading on the court system. Imbalance of power, such as one parent having sole custody, invalidates successful mediation, and often requires enforced access.

Within our suggested pro-equal alternating shared parenting, supported by mandatory mediation, financial obligation and human care and love for children will be filled by both parents and extended families. We will also be in harmony with the Charter of Rights.

List of Collective Submission for Shared Parenting’s signatories

- Harvey Maser,           Victoria Men’s Centre

- David Campbell,        Fathers for Equality

- Joseph Miello Father’s Rights Action Group

- Rod Keays                Island Men’s Network

- Ken Wiebe                Leader B.C. Libertarian Party

- John Hedlin                MA Psychology; formerly worked with Children’s Aid Society, Ontario, and homeless families

- Jerry Arthur Wong     B.C. Men’s Resource Centre

- Tom S. Thomas         B.C. representative, Fathers Rights & Equality Exchange

- Gordon Friesen          Well Society

- Kathi Whiting             Coastal Community Services rep.

- Bert A. Isaac             Youth Worker, Victoria Native Friendship Centre

- Meagan Brame          Owner/operator Saxe Point Daycare & Early Childhood Educators of B.C., Victoria Executive

- Dianne Bentley           Co-chairperson of Victoria Branch of Early Childhood Educators of B.C. & manager of Carrot Seed Preschool – Saanich

- Joseph Sakari            Director of Counseling Programs, Victoria Salvation Army

- Louise M. J. Rousseau           Elijah House Canada, Prayer Counseling Ministry

- John Allen West         Father of 3; Grandfather of 3; Social Anthropologist; Philosopher; Reverend Brother, Church of the Universe

- Deanna Daniels          Coordinator, Many Generous Hands, Victoria, B.C.

- Henry Boston             Retired United Church Minister

- Rev. Tom Oshiro       Executive Director, Mustard Seed, Victoria, B.C.

- Dorothy Livingstone   Board Member, Child & Youth Advocacy Society

- Alan Venn                  Member of Council of Canadians

- Philip Symons            Member, World Federalists of Canada

- Leon ‘Ted’ Smith       CRUNCH Youth Representative

- Robert Haymond       PhD; Registered Psychologist

- Robert Moore-Stewart          Lawyer

- Renée Chamberland   Membre de Réseau Femme de la C.-B.

- José Maria Janecek    Board Member of Inner City Youth Works Society

- Claude Fortin             Father of 2; St-Jean-Baptiste church parishioner

- Nicole Soto               Member, Société Francophone de Victoria

- Kenneth T. Wright     Retired Elementary School Principal

- Paul F. C. Hurst         Secretary, Downtown Neighborhood Association

- Harold S. Heard        Catholic Priest, Victoria Diocese

- Melissa Wilding          Foster Child & Teenager; Single Parent & Widow

- Aline Tétreault            Responsable Diocésaine de la Catéchèse en Français, Retired Scout Leader

- Rev. Peter Isles          Retired Anglican Priest; War Veterans Chaplain, Vict., B.C.

- Rev. Nancy E. Ford   Coordinator of Counseling Services, Island Pastoral Services Association

- Rev. Bill Cole             Director of Services, Island Pastoral Services Association

- Léonard E. J. Rousseau          Retired High School Principal

- Ian Chandler              Foster Child & Teenager; non-custodial Father; Head Resident of Anawim House, Vict., B.C.

- Michael T. O’Connell Catholic Priest, St-Andrew’s Cathedral

- Sandy Ockenden       Youth Empowerment & Education Worker

- Mireille Larminey       Teacher Aide

- Hélène Lafrenière       High School Teacher Assistant

- Rick Cooper              Member, Board of Directors, Together Against Poverty Society

- Steven B. Day            Father of 2; Practicing Nurse

- Al                              Residential Care Aid, people mentally disabled

- Michael D. Lane        Senior Field Officer, Breakup Resolution Services

- John A. Young           Vice–President, Vancouver Island Human Rights Coalition

- Morey A. Benoit        Staff Member, Victoria Association for Community Living

- Lawrence A. Bach     Social Worker, Ministry for Children & Families

- Mike Doyle                Professor Emeritus, University of Victoria; Member, St-Vincent de Paul Society; Co-founder, Island Men’s Network

- Glennis Sanders         Raised 9 nieces & nephews (pseudo-orphans)

- Michael Peck             Practicing Father of 2

- Brother Paul               Franciscan; Volunteer, soup kitchen, St-Andrew’s Cathedral

- Michael Darius Kaye  Founder, Men Supporting Men Inc.

- Alan Oram                 Community Support Worker, Shasa/Centaine

- Satyahit Dasa             Hare Krishna

- Lori Snow                  Founder of Bambino’s Family Co-op

- Navit Giauque            Founder of Bambino’s Family Co-op

- Gratia Watson            Director/Founder of Bambino’s

- Raoul Leblanc            Catholic Priest, Victoria Diocese

- Moira Jones               Administrative Secretary, Parents for Healthy Children

- Canon Errol J. Shilliday          Retired Anglican Priest, St Mary the Virgin, Oak Bay, B.C.

- M. Howlett                Co-Founder, Parents for Healthy Children

- Hilda Catherine Shilliday         Retired Public Health Nurse;

Member, B.C. Council for Families

- Marian Barath            Grandmother

- Ray Jansen                 President, Victoria Chapter, Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship International

- Anne Hartnell             Graduate from Lay Counseling; Victoria Coordinator for Moral Re-armament

- Minneh Kamau          Born of an abusive Mother & a good loving Father

- Sharon Ryan              Palliative Care Volunteer; Coordinator for Victoria Stroke Recovery Club

- Sarah Nugent             Youth & Child Advocate

- Margaret O’Donnell   Mental Health Worker

- Jean-Louis Froment   Foster Parent; Scout Leader

- Adora Vaal-Henké    Divorced Mother of 3; Partner of non-custodial Father; Co-Parent of 5 Children

- Lin Pazder                 President of Anawim Companions Society, Victoria, B.C.

- Elvis Folz                   Youth Addictions Counselor

- Eileen Anderson         Executive Director, Church of Scientology, Victoria

- Nadine Plotnikoff       Child & Youth Counselor, Queen Alexandra Centre for Children’s Health

- Kiyoshi Kosky           Youth Counselor with MD and phys kids

- Charles Ball               Child & Youth Counselor, Queen Alexandra Centre for Children’s Health, Ledger House

- Julie Wirch                 Retired Child Protection Worker; Former Foster Parent

- Brian J. Wood           Home Support Worker; Divorced Father

- Daryl & Shawn Hefele           Father & Son

- Dr. Stewart Blaikie     Doctor of Chiropractic, Family Practicioner; Joint Custodial Parent

- Tamara Williams        Child of Alienated Father; Woman; Mother of 2

- Heny C. Andersoff     Former High School Teacher; Mother of One

- Rev. T. Sandy Taylor Church of Freedom & Children First; Alienated Father of One; Editor-in-Chief of 3 Publications

- Julie Skulski               Mother & Grandmother

- Patrick D. D. Fisher   Shared Parenting Father of One; Summer Day Camp Counselor; 3^rd year Child & Youth Care University Student; Former After School Care Program Supervisor; Elementary & Secondary School Thematic Theatre Actor; D.A.R.E. Program Volunteer

- Veronica Boyd Aylott            Supreme Court of British Columbia Self-Representative; Divorced Mother of 2

- James Fry/Virginia Small Fry  21 years Married; Parents of 2 Teenagers

- Gilles Patenaude         Rotary President (Sooke); Father of 3

- Gregory Hartnell        Father of One; Director, Greater Victoria Concerned Citizens Association; Editor/Publisher of LA ROSA REVUE

- Gary Brandstadt         B.A.; H.m.B. Music; M.S.W.; R.S.W.; Individual & Marital Counselor; Psychotherapist

- Corinne Ostapin         Community Nurse (RN, RSCN), Clinic Coordinator, South Vancouver Island Family Planning Society

- Roberta Turner          Executive Director (BSW), SVI Family Planning

- Gary James MacDougall        Family Counselor, St-Vincent de Paul Society; 4^th year School of Social Work Student/Future Child Protection Worker; Father of 3; Member of Trinity Christian Center

- Dave Kesson             Residential Care Worker

- Robert Sam               Member, Songhees First Nation; Father of 5; Grandfather of 13

- Sue Rees                   Legal Secretary

- Richard F. Corbière   Member of the 3 Fires Confederacy (Ojibwa Tribe); Father of 6

- Amy Nicole Elliott      Teenager; alienated from Father by MCF, abandoned by Mother

- Art T. Lowe               Vice-President, Victoria Men’s Centre; Father of 5

- R. T. Ferris                R.S.W.

- Reggie Harris             Survivor of bitter and violent Mother, street-life & criminalization

- Andrew Lloyd            Webmaster, Child Services Equality Act; Non-custodial Father

- Arden Murphy           Divorced Father of 3

- Josué Bussières          Child of Alienated Father; Future Father

- John Hill                     Para-legal; Human Rights Legislative Litigator

- Jared Peck                 Teenager of Separated Parents; Survivor of street-life

- Marion Bowman        Mother; Singer

- Jodie Miller                Residential Care Worker; Former Support Worker

- David H. Flatman       4 years Trinity Bible Student; Counselor; Jail Priest, 10 years, Connection to Freedom; Producer

- Rose Henry                Mother of 2 foster Children & one biological Child; 8 years Board Member of Together Against Poverty Society; Director of Capital Regional Race Relations association

- Rev. Father Allen Jones          Father of Daughter; Curate of St-Michael’s Western Orthodox Mission, Western Orthodox Church in Canada

- Linda Green               MD; Sister of Alienated Father

- Ono, Nobu Aki Paul  Reiki Healer; One Son; Peace Bundle Carrier; Central Spiritual Authority

There are many, many more signatories to list, but the list is too long to put up, if you wish to add your  signatories, to this list, please contact rejean_bussieres@hotrmail.com