The Ten Commandment Monument has been peacefully resting in the Assiniboine Park Winnipeg since 1965.  Then in 2017 the monument had to be moved because of a new project the Leaf Diversity Gardens.  The Assiniboine Park Conservancy (APC), a group of non-elected mostly business type representatives who operate the park at an arm's length from the the City of Winnipeg Council, instead of relocating the Monument back into the park decided to remove it!  Presently this issue has been appealed to the City of Winnipeg Council.  Anyone signing this petition is encouraged to contact the City Winnipeg Councillors and the Mayor email and phone numbers and let them know you are supportive of having the Ten Commandments Monument relocated back into Assiniboine Park in an respectable, honourable location.

Why should you care?

1. Presently all over Canada and the USA there is a movement of the "Politically Correct" to get rid of all religious signs and symbols from the public spaces.  Religious liberty is at stake.  another park with same issue
2. The problem of having administrative and non-elected appointees making important decisions without fully informing the elected representatives!
3. Quebec's Provincial Government has pasted a very dangerous Bill 21 The Secularism Act to remove all religious symbols from the public spaces.  The removal of the Ten Commandment Monument could be a "testing of the waters" here in Manitoba which eventually could lead to our own Secularism Act!
4. The historic/cultural loss of the the Ten Commandment Monument would be a blow to the local community and the Manitoba Historical Society.
5. This is an educational loss to all people who may be seeking to know more about our Judeo-Christian heritage and its legal system.  Removing the Monument is denying them the opportunity in public which was originally there.
6. Finally the Ten Commandments is one the oldest set of values in the world putting some positive limitations on human behaviour.  The Jews, Christians, and Islamic religions all use the Ten Commandments for guidance but many non-religious people support them for their common sense, social justice, mental health, and guidance for maintaining positive relationships in our society.  The Ten Commandments are basic for all humanity and a civilized society.
7. A faulty process appeared to be used by the Assiniboine Park Conservancy (APC) to initially try to sneak the Ten Commandments Monument out of the park without the public or our elected representatives knowing any thing about it.
8. Removal of the Ten Commandments Monument does not promote reconciliation/harmony but rather division.
9. Someday your children/grandchild may ask you, why you never spoke out against the crumbling of our society? Hopefully you can say, "I did!"

For further information please check out the following link a Winnipeg Free Press article by John Longhurst "Thou Shalt, or Shalt not be Inclusive?" which ran in the WFP Sat. June 11th, A3 2022.

https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/life/faith/2022/06/10/thou-shalt-or-shalt-not-honour-religious-monuments-donated-to-city