Advocacy Letters

Like many Canadians, CFUW Clubs and members are very disappointed in the increasingly toxic and unprofessional tone and conduct of politics in Canada, both within and outside of the federal and provincial legislatures. While politicians of all backgrounds and identities are facing growing aggression, women-particularly Indigenous, 2SLGBTQ+, and racialized women-are more frequently subjected to identity-focused…

The 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as COP28, was held from November 30 to December 13 in United Arab Emirates. Canada sent an official delegation to the conference, including Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault. Ahead of COP28 on November 21, CFUW sent a letter to Minister Guilbeault encouraging the…

In 2022, CFUW passed a Resolution urging the federal government to enable constitutional recognition that a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a human right. CFUW recognizes that without a healthy environment, all other human rights are compromised-the preservation of the environment is central to the improvement of the status of women. We also know…

On October 27, 2023, CFUW National sent a letter on the war and humanitarian crisis in Israel and Gaza to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, as well as Ministers Mélanie Joly, Ahmed Hussen, Bill Blair, and Marci Ien, and Canadian Ambassador to the United Nations Robert Rae. Read the letter here.

Support of Bill C-226 on a National Strategy to Address Environmental Racism Bill C-226: An Act respecting the development of a national strategy to assess, prevent and address environmental racism and to advance environmental justice This bill is about to go for its third reading and would enact the need for a national strategy on…

Campaign on Bill C-21 to ban assault-style firearms CFUW joins Women’s 30 other Women’s and Feminist Organizations as part of the #Women4GunControl Coalition to Call on National Party Leaders to Honour Their Campaign Promises to Ban Assault-Style Firearms From the open letter to national party leaders: “Gun control is a feminist issue, since access to…

CFUW National President, Kathryn Wilkinson, was proud to join other feminist leaders in a letter on firearms controls as they relate to violence against women initiated by the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) to The Honourable Marco Mendicino, P.C., M.P., Minister of Public Safety and The Honourable Marci Ien, P.C., M.P., Minister…