{"id":482,"date":"2012-01-31T07:16:18","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T07:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/?page_id=482"},"modified":"2024-02-13T17:55:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T17:55:44","slug":"the-reason-for-our-existence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/?page_id=482","title":{"rendered":"Our Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fran\u00e7ais ci-dessous<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>As conscientious objectors, 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 work so that any funds that we turn over to government will be used only for peaceful purposes. We therefore call ourselves <strong><em>Conscientious Objectors to Military Taxation (COMT)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;\">Conscience Canada works to empower our members<b><i> <\/i><\/b>and all of society:<br \/>\n\u2022 to assert their conscientious objection to having their money conscripted, and earth\u2019s resources exploited, to pay for war and preparation for war;<br \/>\n\u2022 to champion the peace and well-being of all humankind; and<br \/>\n\u2022 to demand an end to all complicity and support for war and militarism<\/span><\/p>\n<h1>Notre raison d&#8217;\u00eatre<\/h1>\n<p>En tant qu&#8217;objecteurs de conscience, nous ne nous contentons pas d&#8217;\u00e9viter le service militaire puisque nous savons qu&#8217;une partie de nos imp\u00f4ts servira \u00e0 payer pour la guerre et pour d&#8217;autres formes de violence. Nous savons que, par l&#8217;interm\u00e9diaire de nos imp\u00f4ts, nos gouvernements font de nous des complices de la guerre, peu importe nos croyances et nos valeurs.<\/p>\n<p>Nous d\u00e9sirons nous assurer que tous les fonds que nous verserons au gouvernement serviront \u00e0 des fins pacifiques. Nous nous d\u00e9signons donc comme des<strong> o<em>bjecteurs<\/em><em> de conscience oppos\u00e9s aux imp\u00f4ts militaires<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Conscience Canada vise \u00e0 habiliter ses membres et l&#8217;ensemble de la soci\u00e9t\u00e9:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp; \u00e0 manifester leur objection de conscience en refusant que leur argent soit&nbsp;&nbsp; mobilis\u00e9 et que les ressources de notre plan\u00e8te servent \u00e0 financer la guerre et ses pr\u00e9paratifs;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00e0 promouvoir la paix et le bien-\u00eatre de toute l&#8217;humanit\u00e9; et<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; \u00e0 exiger la fin de toute connivence et de tout soutien \u00e0 la guerre et au militarisme.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fran\u00e7ais ci-dessous As conscientious objectors, 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-482","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2044,"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/482\/revisions\/2044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.consciencecanada.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}