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Mother's Day Statement

Mother's Day Statement          Link to Microsoft Word/RTF Version      Link To Print Friendly Version
Press Release - May 10, 2006 Link to Microsoft Word/RTF Version      Link To Print Friendly Version

May 2006

On Mothers Day, we celebrate our mothers and all they have done for us. Yet in all our communities everywhere in Canada, mothers are struggling to make ends meet, to do well by their children and their families. Women must work hard to bring about a world where their children will not have to fear sexual violence, racism, poverty, discrimination and exclusion. Mothers do this in a society that has not adapted itself to the reality of motherhood in the 21st century or delivered its promise of equality for all women.

While more fathers have been getting involved, women still do the lion’s share of the work of caring for children and the home. Most mothers do a double day’s work and pay a disproportionate price for raising children. Motherhood often leads to impoverishment for women, to overwork, exhaustion and guilt. All mothers should freely choose to give life. All children should be wanted children. No mother should have to interrupt a pregnancy because she is too poor or because she lacks social or economic support.

Childbirth is one of the most expensive times in a woman’s life, yet that is when she has the least capacity to earn a living. Mothers should be respected and supported. They need more government support and better income replacement, so they are not forced to depend on other family members for basic income security. Women with children must remain strong and autonomous and never be forced by economic necessity to remain with an abusive partner.

For Mothers Day 2006, we the undersigned request that:

  • Federal funding for safe, quality, flexible, inclusive and universally accessible childcare services be maintained and expanded.
  • Each mother of a child under six receive in full the promised amount of $1,200 per child, in the form of a tax credit.
  • No Province be allowed to claw-back Child Tax Benefit because a child’s family is on social assistance.
  • Maternity and parental benefits be improved, so that women across Canada receive at least as much as they would under Québec’s more generous system.
  • Federal pay equity legislation be adopted, as recommended by the Pay Equity Task Force Report in May 2004.
  • Workplace policies be improved to meet the needs of casual, part-time and contract workers and to allow for flexibility to accommodate the needs of children.

We want real equality for mothers, now!

Organization Endorsements (May 10-2006-7:30am)

Action ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes

Alberta New Democrats, Calgary Women’s Caucus

Alliance des Femmes Immigrantes Francophones

Association d’entraide Le Chaînon

Au bas de l'échelle

B.C. Federation of Labour

Bathurst District Labour Council

Calacs Région Côte-Nord

Calgary and District Labour Council

Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies

Canadian Auto Workers Local 199 Women’s Committee

Canadian Auto Workers Union

Canadian Council of Muslim Women

Canadian Federation of Students

Canadian Labour Congress

Canadian Office and Professional Employees Union

TOP

Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW)

Canadian Union of Public Employees

Canadian Union of Public Employees Ontario

Canadian Women’s Health Network

Caribbean Women Network of Canada

Carrefour des femmes d’Anjou

Centre d’aide et de lutte aux les agressions a caractère sexuel de Rouyn-Noranda

Centre d’aide et de lutte contre les agressions sexuel (CALACS) Chaudière-Appalaches Inc.

Centre d’éducation et d’action des femmes

Centre de femmes dans Côte-des-Neiges Montréal

Centre de femmes l’Éclaircie

Centre de femmes l’Érige

Centre de formation sociale Marie-Gérin Lajoie

Centre des femmes du Plateau Mont-Royal (Montréal)

Centre for Feminist Research, York University

Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire sur la biologie, la santé, la société et l’environnement

Centre ressources pour femmes de Beauport

Centre Victoria pour femmes de Sudbury

Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada (CCAAC)

Child Care Coalition of Manitoba

City of All Women Initiatives

Coalition of Black Trade Unionists

Coalition for Pay Equity (N-B)

Collectif de Sept-Îles pour la santé des femmes

Comité Chrétien pour les Droits Humains en Amérique Latine

Communication, Energy and Paperworkers Union of Canada

Conseil d’intervention pour l’accès des femmes du travail

CUPE Local 2204 – Child Care Workers of Eastern Ontario

CUPE Local 82

CUPE Ontario Women's Committee

TOP

Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario

Equal Pay Coalition of Ontario

Fédération des associations de familles monoparentales et recomposées du Québec

Feminist Alliance for International Action

Feminist Coalition of Newfoundland and Labrador

Femmes et production industrielle

Gender Equality Incorporated

Hamilton and District Labour Council
(Women’s Committee and Executive Council)

International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (Lodge 99)

International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers in Canada

Kamloops and District Labour Council

La Fédération de ressources d'hébergement pour femmes violentées et en difficulté du Québec

L'Ombre-Elle de Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts (Québec)

La Table de concertation des groupes de femmes du Saguenay-Lac-St-Jean

La Maison des femmes de Rimouski

Maison des femmes des Bois-Francs

Manitoba Federation of Labour

Match International

METRAC

Mouvement ontarien des femmes immigrantes francophones

Multicultural Women’s Organization of Newfoundland and Labrador

TOP

National Association of Women and the Law

National Council of Women of Canada

National Organization of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of Canada

New Brunswick Federation of Labour

Northwestern Ontario Women's Action Group

Northern Territories Federation of Labour

Nova Scotia Federation of Labour

Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses

Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care

Ontario English Catholic Teachers’ Association

Ontario Federation of Labour

Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation

Ontario Women's Health Network

Ontario Women’s Justice Network

Provincial Advisory Council on the Status of Women of Newfoundland and Labrador

Public Service Alliance of Canada

Québec Federation of Women

Quebec Native Women

TOP

Regroupement Naissance-Renaissance

Regroupement québecois des Centres d’aide et de lutte contre les aggressions à caractère sexuel

Réseau des femmes du Syndicat de la fonction publique du Québec

Rights & Democracy

ROSE du Nord

Saint John & District Labour Council

Shipyard General Workers Federation

St. Andrews United Church, Calgary

St. John’s Status of Women Council

Steelworkers Hamilton Area Council Women of Steel Committee

Syndicat des employées de la Banque Laurentienne du Canada

Table de concertation du mouvement des femmes de la Mauricie

Table féministe francophone de concertation provinciale de l’Ontario

Tibetan Women’s Association of Ontario

Toronto Women’s Call to Action

TOP

UFCW Local 1977

United Food and Commercial Workers

United Food and Commercial Workers Local 1400

UN Platform for Action Committee Manitoba (UNPAC)

Vancouver & District Labour Council

West Kootenay Labour Council

Women Against Violence Against Women

Women’s Committee & Executive Council of the Hamilton and District Labour Council

Women’s Committee for the Prince Albert & District Labour Council

Women’s Committee of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers

Women’s Inter-church Council of Canada

Women’s Network PEI

Women’s Studies Department University of Windsor

Women’s Studies Department, University of Victoria

Women's Centre of Calgary

Womenspace

YWCA Canada






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