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1. How do you get yourself invited to make a submission before a Parliamentary committee?
Andrée Côté et Kim Pate, Alliance de la Fonction publique du Canada/Public Service Alliance of Canada. In Julie Shugarman, Martha Jackman Eds., Online Feminist Law Reform Course, (Ottawa: NAWL Charitable Trust, 2014).
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2. Why prepare a written brief?
Andrée Côté et Kim Pate, Alliance de la Fonction publique du Canada/Public Service Alliance of Canada. In Julie Shugarman, Martha Jackman Eds., Online Feminist Law Reform Course, (Ottawa: NAWL Charitable Trust, 2014).
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3. On working with policy makers
Kate McInturff, Senior Researcher, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. In Julie Shugarman, Martha Jackman Eds., Online Feminist Law Reform Course, (Ottawa: NAWL Charitable Trust, 2014).
Parliamentary committees
Videos
Readings
- House of Commons, Committees: Practical Guide, 9th ed. (rev’d), October 2015
- House of Commons, Guide for Submitting Briefs to House of Commons Committees, October 2015
- House of Commons, Guide for Witnesses Appearing Before House of Commons Committees, October 2015
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Writing Effective Reports: Preparing policy brief (2001), en ligne: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Kate McInturff, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives,“Study: The Economic Leadership and Prosperity of Canadian Women” Testimony to the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, April 30, 2014
- Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC), “Sexual Harassment in the Federal Workplace,” Brief to the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, January 29, 2013
- National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL), "Proactice Pay Equity Legislation: Equality Law Requires it Now," Presentation to the House of Commons Special Committee on Pay Equity, May 4, 2016
Questions and Assignments
How might you best prepare oral submissions to a Parliamentary committee?
Create a list of all the Committee’s currently reviewing legislation that may have a disproportionate impact on women. How might you get yourself invited as a witness before one of these committees?
- Draft a written brief to a Parliamentary committee, of a maximum 3,000 words in length, on a feminist law reform topic of your choice.
What is currently being studied by the Standing Committee on the Status of Women? What should this standing committee be studying? What steps might you take to try and get the Committee to undertake a study in a particular area of feminist concern?