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CONFERENCE AGENDA
Forum on Women's Activism in Constitutional and Democratic Reform
Forum Objective
Please join us, back in Room 200 of the West Block, when Members of Parliament and Senators from across party lines, will be in the same place on the same date as the 1981 "Ad Hoc" women's constitutional conference that was held on Valentine's Day 25 years ago - to welcome back many of the engaged Canadians who changed the course of Canadian constitutional history that day. This Forum on Women's Activism in Constitutional and Democratic Reform is being organized by original "Ad Hockers" from 25 years ago and the University of Victoria International Women's Rights Project, in partnership with a diverse range of volunteers including a national "ad hoc" youth committee, Equal Voice, Elementary Teachers Federation of Ontario, TakingITGlobal, Power Camp National, FAFIA (Feminist Alliance for International Action), The Afghan Women's Organization, the Youth Action Network, - working together with the financial support of Status of Women Canada, the International Development and Research Council, CIDA, Justice Canada, the Law Commission of Canada and private donors. Activists, artists, academics, media, students, current and former parliamentarians, will join in celebratory retrospection of women's activism in Canadian constitution-building, to produce forward-looking strategies in a global context - linking diverse intergenerational perspectives on Canadian experiences, with those of activist women leaders engaged in building the constitutional democracies of Afghanistan, Rwanda and South Africa.

Monday, February 13, 2005
Afternoon: Arrivals, Reception, "Water" with Deepa Mehta & Devyani Saltzman
15:30 - 17:00 Registration Security Clearances: Room 208, West Block
Display Set-up: Room 208, West Block
17:30 - 18:30 Reception: Room 208, West Block
18:30 - 21:00 Arts and Activism: Deepa Mehta presents "Water": Room 200, West Block
Tuesday, February 14, 2005
Morning: Past, Present & Futures
07:00 - 08:15 Registration Security Clearances: Room 208, West Block
Display Set-up: Room 208, West Block
Opening Ceremony with Parliamentary Sponsors: Room 200, West Block
08:30 - 09:15 Co-chairs: Marilou McPhedran & Suzanne Boivin
National Anthem: WE Gowling Children's Choir of Ottawa
Introductions & Acknowledgements
1981 Ad Hoc Collage/Reunion Photo: Pat Hacker [Principal Ad Hoc coordinator in Ottawa]
Mapping Canadian Constitutional Past, Present & Futures: Interactive Panel & Open Discussion with Moderator Elizabeth Gray
09:15 - 09:25 Panel Keynote: Doris Anderson
09:25 - 09:30 Ad Hoc Songs: Linda Palmer Nye
09:30 - 10:00 Suzanne Boivin [Quebec lawyer, a principal Ad Hoc lobbyist]
Beverley Baines [Queens U, principal Ad Hoc constitutional expert]
Michele Landsberg
Judy Erola [Liberal Cabinet, 1981]
Flora McDonald [Women's Critic, P.C.]
Margaret Mitchell [NDP]
10:00 - 10:30 Open Discussion
10:30 - 11:00 Break / Displays & The Living Tree / Oral History
11:00 - 11:30 Global Constitutionalism & Women's Activism: Penelope Andrews, South Africa & CUNY
Afternoon: Forward Looking Strategies in a Global Context
Brown Bag Lunch & Facilitated Discussion Group
11:30 - 13:00 Political and Public Life
Violence Against Women & Girls
Education
Economic and Social Rights
Employment
Immigration & Citizenship
Health
Matrimonial & Property Rights

Book Signings by Authors in Room 208:
"Taking of Twenty Eight" - Penney Kome
"Be a Nice Girl!" - Dr. Ruth Bell, CFUW-Ottawa
"The Fight for Women's Rights: Meech, Charlottetown and Manitoba Women" - Paula Mallea
Country Studies: South Africa, Afghanistan, Rwanda and Canada [Chairs TBC]
13:00 - 13:30 South Africa
- Gertrude Fester
- Lerato Legoabe
13:30 - 13:45 Open Discussion
13:45 - 14:15 Afghanistan
- Sima Samar
- Malalai Joya
14:15 - 14:30 Open Discussion
14:30 - 15:00 Rwanda
- Mary Balikungeri
- Justine Uvuza
15:00 - 15:15 Open Discussion
15:15 - 15:30 Break
15:30 - 16:00 Canada
- Sharon McIvor
16:00 - 16:15 Open Discussion
16:15 - 16:45 Plenary: Intergenerational, International Actions
16:45 - 17:00 Closing Remarks
17:00 - 18:00 Reception
Evening: Arts and Activism
19:00 - 21:00 "The Vagina Monologues", Bronson Centre (English)
Wednesday, February 15, 2005
Morning: Equal Voice in Room 200, West Block
08:30 - 08:40 Formalities: Raylene Lang-Dion: Chair, Equal Voice National Capital Region
08:40 - 09:10 Campaign School Launch - Getting to the Gate:
Rosemary Speirs - Chair, Equal Voice
Patricia Dumas - Chair, Getting to the Gate Online Campaign School
Media Contact - Jennifer Brown (cell# 613-614-2894)
09:10 - 09:30 Context Setting: Why It Counts?
Making the link between improving women's realities and the importance of increasing women's political representation.
Rosemary Speirs: Chair, Equal Voice
Bonnie Diamond: Executive Director, National Association of Women and the Law
Anu Bose: Executive Director, National Organization of Immigrant and Visible Minority Women of Canada
Sharon MacIvor: NWAC
Charlotte Thibault: Forum du secteur bénevole et communautaire, Relais-Femmes
Media Contact: Jennifer Brown (cell # 613-614-2894)
09:30 - 10:00 Options for Change Panel:
Electoral Systems - Doris Anderson
Incentives - TBA
Political Advocacy - TBA
10:00 - 10:30 Q & A Session: Donna Dasko, Moderator
10:30 - 10:40 Break (Sponsored by the Canadian Medical Association)
10:40 - 12:00 Developing the Action Plan
Donna Dasko, Moderator
Afternoon: Youth Action Plans
12:15 - 12:30 Opening Plenary - Lerato Legoabe, South Africa
12:30 - 14:00 Brown Bag Lunch & Facilitated Discussion Groups
14:15 - 14:45 Facilitators Reports to Plenary
14:45 - 15:15 Youth Action Plans
15:15 - 15:45 GAAP Performance & Closing
Evening: Arts and Activism
19:00 - 21:00 "The Vagina Monologues", Bronson Centre (English)
19:30 - 21:30 Sen. Viola Léger & Danielle Gregoire, "Grace & Gloria", Theâtre de L'Isle, Gatineau (French)


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