[All] Fw: Black Women in Canada - Behind the Numbers

[Lanteigne]

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Lulu 
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   ----- Forwarded message ----- From: "Lanteigne" <water.lulu at yahoo.ca> To: "Justin Trudeau" <justin.trudeau at parl.gc.ca>, "chrystia.freeland at parl.gc.ca" <chrystia.freeland at parl.gc.ca>, "Bardish Chagger" <bardish.chagger at parl.gc.ca>, "Catherine Fife - CO" <cfife-co at ndp.on.ca>, "Elizabeth May" <elizabeth.may at parl.gc.ca>, "Jagmeet Singh" <jagmeet.singh at parl.gc.ca>, "Blanchet, Yves-François - Député" <yves-francois.blanchet at parl.gc.ca>, "andrew.scheer at parl.gc.ca" <andrew.scheer at parl.gc.ca>, "Premier of Ontario | Premier ministre de l\u2019Ontario" <premier at ontario.ca>, "Andrea Horwath" <ahorwath-qp at ndp.on.ca>, "mikeschreiner at gpo.ca" <mikeschreiner at gpo.ca>, "llindo-qp at ndp.on.ca" <llindo-qp at ndp.on.ca>, "sdelduca.mpp.co at liberal.ola.org" <sdelduca.mpp.co at liberal.ola.org>, "Dave Jaworsky" <dave.jaworsky at waterloo.ca>, "Karen Redman" <kredman at regionofwaterloo.ca>, "Royce Bodaly" <royce.bodaly at waterloo.ca> Cc:  Sent: Sat., 30 May 2020 at 12:35 p.m. Subject: Black Women in Canada - Behind the Numbers  Dear Hon. Prime Minister, Premier, Ministers, Mayor's and Council Members. 
I read the report Behind the Numbers about the situation being faced by Black Women in Canada today.  Full report here by the Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives.
http://behindthenumbers.ca/shorthand/black-women-in-canada/
I support these recommendations for the Federal Government:
1. Create a mechanism for overseeing, evaluating and ensuring domestic implementation of the Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women and the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
2. Develop a comprehensive national gender equality policy to address structural factors such as anti-Black racism leading to Black gendered inequality. 
3. Ensure that the new National Institute for Women’s Health Research is mandated and resourced to address the significant health disparities that Black women and girls experience.
4. Design and implement a lasting and meaningful national plan to combat poverty that uses a human rights framework and takes the particular and diverse realities of Black women’s lives into account
5. Review the development of strategies to increase affordable housing and end homelessness and ensure that those strategies are gendered and include an intersectional analysis that addresses anti-Black racism.
6. Reform the Employment Insurance program to ensure equitable access to benefits and training for precariously employed workers and temporary help agency workers.
7. Provide start-up funds, capital, mentorship and other needed supports to help boost entrepreneurship, another key strategy for improving the economic security of Black women.
8. Immediately engage with Black community organizations and Black community experts, across the country, through in-person meetings, specialized task forces and working groups, to consider mechanisms and measures needed to address entrenched anti-black racism that causes and perpetuates Black women’s economic inequality.
9. Develop an annual reporting mechanism that coordinates the collection of race-based statistics with the goal of monitoring and improving the status of the Black community in Canada with particular attention to Black women and children.
It is time to put an end systemic discrimination in Canada and to make amends by assuring equity, dignity and equal protections under the law. 
I ask for the Province of Ontario to support this  and I ask as well for municipal resolutions to also show support for this. 
Thank you
Louisette Lanteigne700 Star Flower AveWaterloo OntN2V2L2 519-885-7619
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