For the month of September, our Senate Action Team will be sending a snail mail letter to every single Senator. Why? Because educating the senators and providing a condensed, well-researched document will help those who want to support CAFA feel more comfortable and thus more likely to champion it. We are coordinating this action in meetings. If a senator receives more than one letter, that is awesome.

Here it is: Bilingual Climate Aligned Finance One-Pager.

• Bilingual Senate 2026 Leave Behind
• Spring 2026 Laser Talks Booklet
• CAFA Lobby Training Slides
• CAFA Training Video

Note there is an entire Google Drive to this lobbying effort. You have to be on the team to access them.

This paper petition if for the House of Commons

Climate Aligned Finance Act  Parliamentary Petition 

Government resources:
The Path of Paper Petition
Paper Petitions – Guide and Terms of Use

For Further Information
Clerk of Petitions
Room 314-C, West Block
House of Commons
Tel: 613-992-9511
Fax: 613-947-7626
Email PMB-AED@parl.gc.ca

Instructions:

• Have people sign the petition at outreach events and/or carry a copy of it and ask friends and acquaintances to sign it.
• Once you have obtained 30 signatures, call your MP’s office
• Identify yourself as a constituent of his/her riding
• Ask if your MP if he/she would be willing to read our Parliamentary Petition on climate change in its entirety (excluding the signatories) in the House of Commons
• Print the petition on legal (8.5 x 14) or letter-size (8.5 x 11) paper.
• Make sure there are three lines for signatures on the first page.
• Make sure there is a line at the top of every signature page thereafter indicating that it is a parliamentary petition and its topic.
• Get at least 25 signatures on the petition – follow the instructions closely. We recommend getting 30 just to be safe.
• Once completed, copy it for your files if you wish, then bring the original file to your MP’s office to be read in Parliament.

Hand-deliver or send the original copy of the petition to:

YOUR MP’S NAME
House of Commons
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A6

No stamp is required for Parliament in Ottawa.

If your MP does not want to read the petition, you can send it to other MPs who will. Follow up by asking when it will be read in Parliament, how it was received and a big thank you via snail mail, email, and social media. Please inform us in your monthly Citizens’ Climate Lobby Action Report if your petition has been read aloud in the House of Commons. It is considered to be outreach.  By informing the national office we can thank them on Twitter and Facebook.

Cabinet Ministers are not permitted to read petitions in the House of Commons as it would constitute a “conflict of interest”. Thus if your MP is a cabinet Minister you should inform him/her about the petition and ask if he or she could suggest another MP from your province who might read the petition instead.

WE DID IT!
Please note this 2020 petition 2020 to the Government of Canada to Improve the Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act was implemented.
CCLC Petition September 2020 ENGLISH (PDF)
CCLC Petition Septembre 2020 FRANCAIS (PDF)

PARLIAMENTARY E-PETITIONS 

These are the official e-petitions that are read in the House of Commons.

Online parliamentary petitions and any online petition are a lot of work. Here are the steps to go through to get one considered by our network.

1. First, there must be buy-in from most of the CCL group leaders – especially from the Parliamentary Petition Team – the team that knows the intricate steps.
2. Then we need to form an eager National Action Team with clear job descriptions, and a step-by-step plan to attain 1000+++ signees. This is a multi-step process.
3. Join CCL Canada monthly calls if you ever have the idea to do an online Parliamentarian Petition and talk it over with your national colleagues. We row together. No one person makes decisions for national actions.

Summer 2026 CAFA Post Cards

n.b. The backs of the postcards are specific for Senators or MPs
and no postage is required to send cards to Parliament Hill.

Previous Postcards

For Valentines Day 2026 we created postcards to support the Climate Aligned Finance Act. We have changed the back of the card so that you can use them year round.

Note the back of the cards do not reference Valentine’s Day.

Printing instructions:

1. Right-click on an image and choose “Save image as” to download it to your computer.
   Or edit the images directly in Canva by making a copy in your own account.
2. There are two postcard backs: one for the Senate and one for the House of Commons.
3. To save on printing costs, the back of the postcard can be printed in black and white or greyscale.
4. Choose your images, and print:
   – on card stock for postcards, or
   – on regular paper if you’ll use envelopes.

Signing the postcards:

• Be sure to put the name of the parliamentarian on the card in the two places as well as your name, city and postal code. (You can put your full address but there is not a lot of room).
• Note that postage is NOT required for letters and postcards sent to Parliament Hill.

• In one week, we collected 886 sign-ons nation-wide for open letter in support of CAFA.
• Our dedicated CAFA-Senate action team sent over 500 paper Valentines to Parliament Hill in support of CAFA.
• We have over two dozen teams reaching out to key senators to try to secure lobbying appointments with them.

Coming soon,

Progress on the New Climate Aligned Finance Bill

In late October 2025, Senator Rosa Galvez introduced a new and improved Climate-Aligned Finance Act (a.k.a. CAFA or Bill S-238) after the last version died at the end of Parliament. The bill would make banks and Crown corporations create climate action plans and set targets. It would make company leaders responsible for following climate commitments, require climate experts on boards, and make banks hold more reserves if they take bigger climate risks.

With climate change “already starting to wreak havoc on our financial system,” Galvez said in a media release, “CAFA is not radical, it is simply inevitable. It is the next logical step to protect Canadians, our economy, and our climate. Voluntary pledges have failed to shift capital at the scale and speed required.”

The bill “is essential because Canada’s reliance on fossil fuel financing is increasing systemic risk,” she added. “We need structural rules, not wishful thinking.”

The release says the new version of CAFA, Senate Bill S-238, was “strengthened through expert consultations” by removing references to specific capital risk-weights for financing of fossil fuel activities, requiring disclosure but not removal of board members with “climate conflicts,” and “deeming those complying with the new duty to align with climate commitments to carry out their duties under any other enactment.”

Galvez introduced the previous version of CAFA, Bill S-243, on March 24, 2022. It was endorsed by 89 investment firms, academic organizations, and environmental groups, referred to the Senate Committee on Banking, Commerce and the Economy in June, 2023, and finally received a brief hearing the following November. In March, 2024, as supporters marked the bill’s second anniversary with social media posts, a Senate source reported no immediate plans on the part of committee chair Pamela Wallin (CSG-Saskatchewan) to bring the legislation forward for detailed study.

ADDENDUM JANUARY 2026: A January 2026 House of Commons ENVI Committee report recommended moving foward on climate aligned-finance regulations. 

ADDENDUM APRIL 21. 2026: Senator MacDonald made an intervention on Bill S238 in the Senate.

ADDENDUM MAY 2026: MP Eric St-Pierre put forth a motion (M-34) on the House of Commons in support of climate aligned finance.

We have asked our Members to provide testimonials for CAFA using these slides.