Update: What your signatures helped start — and a new petition

Thank you to every one of the 2,000+ of you who signed this petition asking for stricter sentences. You were the first people to stand with our family, and I have never forgotten it.

This petition still stands. But the fight has also grown into something more specific: a proposed federal law called Jason's Exception. It would hold every participant in a kidnapping accountable when the victim dies, instead of letting the charges disappear the way they did in my brother Jason's case.

Today I had a meeting at Brampton City Hall about Jason's Exception, and it went better than I hoped. It has support inside City Hall now, and steps are being taken to help it reach the federal level, where this law has to be passed.

Jason's Exception has its own petition now, and I need this community on it too. Please sign and share it here:

https://www.change.org/Jasons_Exception

No family should have to go through what we are still going through.

Thank you for still standing with us.

— Tara Brown, The Hope Hubb (thehopehubb.ca)