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Covid19 hasn't stopped #MCWAction and Advocacy!
Published on August 27, 2020
Government Affairs and Advocacy have been busy promoting actions that will enhance the Montreal Council of Women's mission. Resolutions and the policy and the actions they drive, are central to what we as women strive to deliver: namely, better lives and opportunities for women and families and society in general. As a member of MCW you too can join in on the #MCWAction ! YOU are positioned to advocate for polices, laws, or services that you feel need to be changed or improved. As a member, you are empowered to improve the concerns of women by formulating resolutions, petitions, surveys, or letter writing campaigns in the policy areas of: health, seniors, environment, housing, human rights, child welfare, arts and culture and just about any policy that has an impact on women.
Here are some of the emergency and emerging Resolutions for consideration of the NCWC Resolution Committee 2019-20 that the MCW has crafted:
- "Age Verification: Protecting Children and Youth from Exposure to Pornography online"
- Seniors: Long-Term Care Resolution
- Seniors Bill of Rights
Here are other actions Government Affairs and Advocacy has promoted in the last few months:
Petitions! Please consider responding to these by adding your name to support the petitions involved.
- Voting By Mail - Quebec Municipal Elections for November 2021
- Human Rights and Quebec Government's Protocol on Triage
Other Events:
- MCW is pleased to provide our support to the "The Coalition on Gun Control"
- MCW participated in one in-person mtg and two virtual conferences organized by the City of Montreal.
- Lancement de "L'étude-l'insertion socioprofessionnelle femmes immigrantes", September 19, 2019
- Consultative Virtual Meeting with the Montreal Police Department on "Racism and Systemic Discrimination" June 2, 2020
- Consultative Virtual Meeting and release of report from Office de Consultation Publique de Montréal. On June 15, 2020, after three years of anticipation and public presentations by more than 7,000 Montrealers, a report, “Summary Report on Systemic Racism and Discrimination within the jurisdiction of the City of Montreal.” was issued. The report, with its 38 recommendations, arrived at a most timely moment in our history – during the Covid-19 pandemic and the global protests of Black Lives Matter.