YWCA Toronto | 2006 election: one woman, one vote

2006 federal election: one woman, one vote

Party platforms and women’s equality
Over half the election campaign is over and parties have less than three weeks to tell women how they will move women’s equality forward if they form the next government.

What would Canada look like if every eligible woman cast a vote?
For the YWCA, encouraging women to vote doesn’t mean encouraging them to vote in a certain way. It means helping women to be informed about their choices and the political process, encouraging dialogue regarding candidates’ positions on public policy topics, and increasing women’s understanding of their own power to affect change.

Still in Shock 2006
Still in Shock is intended to provide Canadian voters with a quick background and key questions on women’s equality to ask candidates and party leaders in public debates, meetings, letters to the editor, radio phone-ins, blogs and all the other places our voices can be heard leading up to the forthcoming election.

CanadianElection.net: Women's Equality is an Election Issue
Canadian election news, analysis and organizing of equality-seeking women and women's organizations.

Young Women Vote
"As one of the 2.5 million young women in Canada between the ages of 18 and 30, I pledge to make my voice heard by exercising my right to vote in the next federal election."