Welcome Ceasefire.ca supporters…
Thank you for your interest in Conscientious Objection to Military Taxation. Please click on the following link to inform the Government of Canada of your objection to paying for militarism in Canada: Peace Tax Return 2011.
(A printable version of the Peace Tax Return can be downloaded here.)
For many of us it is not enough to avoid personal military service because we know that funds taken from us in the form of tax will be used for war and other violent purposes. In other words, we know that we will be made complicit in war through our taxes no matter what our beliefs and values might be. As Conscientious Objectors we want to know that all funds that we turn over to government will be used only for peaceful purposes. We therefore call ourselves Conscientious Objectors to Military Taxation (COMT).
Conscience Canada has worked since 1978:
- to promote a change in law to allow all Canadians the right to conscientiously object to military taxation as a right of conscience guaranteed in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms;
- to educate Canadians about freedom of conscience and conscientious objection to military taxation;
- to support conscientious objection to military taxation; and
- to defend freedom of conscience.