We need your help! Our children need our help! We know that by working together to be the voice of our families, we can ensure we will be heard, be seen, be respected and be supported.
Thank you to all who participated in the first step to bring changes to the Canada Pension Plan children’s benefit by signing the e-petition late last year (more on that here…)
Now it’s time to take the next step! And make sure all MPs know about this!!!! Please find, linked below, a letter prepared by our Advocacy Team regarding Certified Petition #e-6646 and proposed changes to the Canada Pension Plan children’s benefit. We encourage you to personalize the letter with your own experience and send it to your local MP. Your voice is powerful, and together we can ensure that elected officials understand the urgent need to better support seniors raising dependent children.
- Member Letter Template to Canada Members of Parliament (doc) – if this document shows as read-only, right-click the file name and select duplicate.
You also will find links below to help you locate their email contacts. You can also visit elections.ca and just type in your postal code. We are also attaching digital copies of the documents we would like you to include (please note, the documents will go to your downloads folder). Should you have any questions regarding this feel free to contact Mandy our Director of Advocacy at advocacy@fairness4crr.com
Thank you for everything you do, every day to ensure your kinship care children are healthy, safe and loved.
Support Documents
- Certified Petition #e-6646 Petition e-6646 – Petitions
- Reimagining Family Support Services Perspectives from Kinship Caregivers https://fairness4crr.com/reimagining-familysupport-services-perspectives-from-kinship-caregivers/
- Statistics Canada. Table 98-10-0135-01 Household and family characteristics of persons including detailed information on stepfamilies, presence of grandparents in household, age group and gender: Canada, provinces and territories, census metropolitan areas and census agglomerations
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.25318/9810013501-eng
- Find your local Member of Parliament: https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/search?province=BC
- FYI: link to find your MLA: https://www.leg.bc.ca/members
