[homeles_ot-l] Last night FW: Great news: Bill C-304 (national housing plan) passes another vote in Commons on Wednesday - back for third and final reading soon!

[Lynne Browne]

Please circulate

 

Hi everyone - 

 

One more hurdle passed for Bill C-304 - see the news from Michael
Shapcott below. Now it's definitely time to email or phone the Minister
Finley and individual Conservative MPs - we've never been this close
before!  You can send the same message to each but please send it to one
at a time. 

 

There are several Conservative MPs in the Ottawa Region. Their vote will
have a huge impact on the future of affordable housing everywhere in our
region no matter where you live. Even if you don't live in their riding,
contact them on behalf of the well-being and future of our community and
your friends and colleagues who may be their constituents. 

 

This is the time to tell them we want them to vote Yea for Bill C-304!

 

o      John Baird (Ottawa West Nepean)- Telephone: (613) 996-0984,
Email: Baird.J at parl.gc.ca <mailto:Baird.J at parl.gc.ca> 

o      Royal Galipeau (Ottawa-Orleans): Telephone: (613) 995-1800,
Email:  Galipeau.R at parl.gc.ca

o      Cheryl Gallant (Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke) Telephone: (613)
992-7712, Email: Gallant.C at parl.gc.ca 

o      Gordon O'Connor (Carleton-Mississippi Mills): Telephone: (613)
992-1119, Email: OConnor.G at parl.gc.ca

o      Minister Diane Finley (Human Resources and Skills Development):
Telephone: (613) 996-4974; Email: Finley.D at parl.gc.ca

 

Contact information for all MPs is at:

http://webinfo.parl.gc.ca/MembersOfParliament/MainMPsCompleteList.aspx?T
imePeriod=Current&Language=E 

 

>From Michael:

With a vote of 141 (yea) and 132 (nay),
<http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?Language=E&Mo
de=1&Parl=40&Ses=3&DocId=4812124#T1810> draft legislation to create a
national housing plan for Canada moved another step forward in the
Commons last night. The national housing plan bill won the support of
NDP, Liberal and Bloc MPs at yesterday's vote, but was opposed by the
federal housing minister, Diane Finley, and others in the Conservative
caucus.  The bill is going back to committee for a quick amendment. MP
Davies is working to ensure that the bill comes back to the Commons for
third and final reading before the holiday recess in mid-December. If
the bill doesn't make it to a vote by that time, then it will be pushed
into the winter session of Parliament - scheduled to start in late
January.

Bill C-304
<http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=4477270
&Language=e&Mode=1> , proposed by MP Libby Davies, would require the
federal government to consult widely with provinces, territories,
municipalities, Aboriginal people, community groups and private sector
interests and report back to the Commons with a comprehensive national
affordable housing plan that meets Canada's international housing rights
obligations. 

The Wellesley Institute's Precarious Housing in Canada 2010
<http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/news/affordable-housing-news/new-repo
rt-precarious-housing-in-canada-2010/>  sets out both detailed
information on the scale and scope of Canada's national affordable
housing crisis, and also offers a practical and pragmatic framework for
a national housing plan. Our Canadian housing e-map
<http://www.wellesleyinstitute.com/local-housing-initiatives-across-cana
da/> lists 173 housing and homelessness initiatives across Canada - and
more can be added.

-          Michael

 

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Michael Shapcott | Director, Affordable Housing and Social Innovation |
Wellesley Institute 
45 Charles St E, Suite 101                    Tel: 416.972.1010 ext 231
Toronto, ON, Canada,  M4Y 1S2           Mobile: 416.605.8316  
E-mail:   michael at wellesleyinstitute.com

www.wellesleyinstitute.com

rigorous research. pragmatic policy solutions. social innovation.
community action.

 

Lynne Browne

Coordinator, Alliance to End Homelessness 

lbrowne at ysb.on.ca <mailto:lbrowne at ysb.on.ca> 

Office: 613-241-1573, ext. 205 

(note this phone # is in use temporarily until Jan 2011 )

Mailing addr: 147 Besserer St., Ottawa, ON K1N 6A7

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