ADVOCACY
The Power of Women Working Together
Team CFUW Southport: Coldest Night of the Year: February 22nd
Lee Anne Coulter and Kathleen Wallace led the CFUW Southport Team to raising $5,000 for Community Projects
CONGRATULATIONS TEAM!
CFUW’s Mandate
• Improve the status of women and girls.
• Promote quality public education.
• Advance human rights, justice, and peace
• Encourage CFUW members to participate in their communities.
Local Priorities for Advocacy
- Long Term Care
- Food Insecurity
- Climate Change/Environmental Protection
- Public healthcare
- Aging in Place
Policy Resolutions adopted by the CFUW membership nationally and provincially are the basis for all our advocacy activities. These resolutions deal with issues relevant to CFUW’s mandate.
The democratically adopted policy resolutions give CFUW National and CFUW Ontario Council legitimacy to lobby and petition the federal, provincial and territorial governments on behalf of our membership. CFUW also holds a special consultative status with the United Nations and belongs to the Education Committee of the Canadian Commission to UNESCO.
CFUW Southport regularly presents “Policy Briefs” to our local MP and MPP to outline our support of CFUW policy regarding current issues. We also contact these representatives to address single issues as they arise in federal parliament or in the Ontario legislature to inform our MP and MPP of our views and ask for their support.
CFUW Southport takes on projects and participates in activities to inform ourselves and the Saugeen Shores Community of issues related to our mandate.
CFUW Southport encourages all eligible voters to participate actively in Canadian democracy at local, provincial and national levels.
Resolutions
CFUW is a grass-roots organisation that advocates for public policy changes based on resolutions that are approved by our membership at the Annual General Meetings each year.
Resolutions that are national or international in scope, and conforming to CFUW’s purpose and mission, are researched and proposed by CFUW Clubs or National Committees.
The subsequent adopted resolutions or policy statements form our framework for action and advocacy. The adopted resolutions make up the CFUW Policy Book, which houses resolutions adopted by our membership since 1964.
Approved Resolutions 2024
1. Archiving Selected Policies I – CFUW Advocacy Committee
2. Archiving Selected Policies II – CFUW Advocacy Committee
3. Archiving CFUW Adopted Resolutions Identified for Combining
4. Combined CFUW Adopted Resolutions
5. Restore and Preserve Canada’s Peatlands
6. National Database Documenting the Impact of Unsafe Drinking Water on Health in First Nation Communities
7. Preserving Deep Sea Ecosystems
9. Incentives to Adopt New Service Standards for Long Term Care
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LAND AND WATER ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
We meet on the traditional territories (which includes lands and waters) of the Anishinabek (An-nish-nah-bek) Nation: The People of the Three Fires known as Ojibway, Odawa, and Pottawatomie (Pot-aw-wot-a-mi) Nations, whose historical boundaries include Goderich in the south, the tip of the Bruce Peninsula in the north and the Nottawasaga River in the east. We support the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and will work with the Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation and the Chippewas of Nawash Unceded First Nation to fulfill these recommendations.
We also recognize the contributions of the Métis Nation of Ontario, whose history and people are well represented in Saugeen Shores.