Fortis owns the following hotels: In Newfoundland, Holiday Inn St. John’s and Holiday Inn Corner Brook, in New Brunswick, Delta Brunswick, and in Nova Scotia, Delta Sydney.

Please send a politely worded message letting the hotels know that:

• its parent company, Fortis, is about to destroy one of the last undisturbed rainforest valleys in Central America, including part of Belize’s Chiquibul National Park. The proposed Chalillo dam would drown unexplored Maya settlements and wipe out critical habitat for rare and endangered species such as the tapirs, jaguars, freshwater crocodiles, South American river otters, howler monkeys, and a rare subspecies of scarlet macaw, fewer than 200 of which remain in Belize. Gone too would be the winter home for many of the birds we see in Canada during the summer, such as the wood thrush and the endangered Acadian flycatcher;
• the International Union for Conservation of Nature, representing two-thousand, four-hundred representatives of governments and conservation organizations, resolved in 2000 that Fortis should scrap the Chalillo dam unless it could show that wildlife habitat would not be significantly harmed. Last year, a report by the Natural History Museum of London, confirmed that the Chalillo dam would cause a "significant and irreversible reduction in biodiversity in Belize" and that many species would simply drown, starve or die out if the dam goes ahead;
• you object to Canadian involvement in the destruction of Belize’s cultural and natural heritage and the damage Fortis is causing to Canada’s reputation;
• you would appreciate a response from the hotel’s managers.

Newfoundland

• Holiday Inn St. John’s
• Holiday Inn Corner Brook
  New Brunswick
• Delta Brunswick
  Nova Scotia
• Delta Sydney

To contact Holiday Inn,

• please see www.sixcontinenthotels.com/holiday-inn
• Click on Customer Service
• Select About Your Stay/Guest Relations
• Tick the Complaint Box

To contact Delta Hotels, please send an email to comments@deltahotels.com