AWH concerns are constantly evolving – local, national and international!
- Violence against women
- Availability of long term care
- Conditions for women in prison
- Gender wage gap
- Child care
- Child support clawbacks
- Affordable housing
- Trade agreements
- Minimum wage
WHAT WE’RE DOING
August 2017- August 2018
Letters sent:
Federal:
- Women and amendments to the “Indian Act”
- Women and the Canadian criminal justice system
- Congratulating government on work for women and girls
Provincial:
- Imprisonment of migrant and refugee claimants and the death of a woman while in detention
- Water bottling
- Request to then Minister of Labour Kevin Flynn to convene a cross-Ministry roundtable on Bill 148, with special concerns of not-for-profit sector
- Allowing the experimental pilot project on Basic Income to continue for its designated 3 years, so that useful data could be collected
- Retaining the updated sex education curriculum in schools
- Finding a way to work with municipalities and the federal government to assist asylum seekers while they await review of their applications
Briefs presented:
- Commented on applying a gender lens to the provincial Budget to Minister and local MPPs at Hamilton Art Gallery
- Bill 148, Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act 2017 supporting the minimum wage, emergency personal leave, concern with precarious work
Meetings sponsored:
- Oakville MPP Stephen Crawford September 6, 2018
- Joint public meeting with the Minister of Labour on Bill 148
- All Candidates meeting with Liberal and NDP candidates (PCs did not come)
- Meeting with Halton’s 4 Daughters of the Vote
- And with Oakville-North Burlington MPP Effie Triantafilopoulos (parliamentary assistant to Minister of Health Christine Elliott) soon as she has set up a constituency office
Other involvements:
- Police Services and the Sexual Assault Review Committee,
- Halton Non-Profit Council and Community Safety and Well-Being in Halton,
- Community Development Halton publication “Women in Halton, 2016”
