MakeWay Charitable Society
Registration:
44
of
52
(2023-03-13
to
2023-05-03)
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit
- Advocacy for the restoration of Atlantic Water Network’s grant from the Atlantic Ecosystems Initiatives following administrative interruptions.
- Connected Communities Work: A Model for Poverty Reduction and Community Development. Seeking to include support Connected Communities Work in federal infrastructure budget.
- Seeking funding opportunities for The Existence Project
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Call to Action 66, with respect to equitable funding and implementation.
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation
- Federal commitment to Freshwater ($1 Billion) and the Canada Water Agency collaboration with the BC Government to fund watershed work/health
Grant, Contribution or Other Financial Benefit, Policies or Program
- Funding and administration of food and food security interventions for First Nation's and other Indigenous organizations in Ontario, such as the Local Food Infrastructure Fund.
- Increased support for expanding birthwork (e.g., midwifery, doula, and abortion) services in the Northwest Territories
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution
- Advance robust legislation to address forced labour in Canada's global supply chains and human rights abuses in Canadian business activity abroad. This involves providing analysis on:
1. Bill s-211, An Act to enact the Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act and to amend the Customs Tariff, with respect to its limitations regarding effective human rights and environmental due diligence.
2. Bill C-262 An Act respecting the corporate responsibility to prevent, address and remedy adverse impacts on human rights occurring in relation to business activities conducted abroad
3. Bill C-263 An Act to establish the Office of the Commissioner for Responsible Business Conduct Abroad and to make consequential amendments to other Acts
4. Bill C-243 An Act respecting the elimination of the use of forced labour and child labour in supply chains
- Amending the Canada Water Act to reflect contemporary environmental concerns
- Amendments to the Competition Act, the CEPA or Consumer Packaging and Labelling Act, and the Copyright Act with respect to the access and affordability of repair parts, tools, and services and how a consumer could be informed further on the reparability and sustainability of consumer goods
- Reforms to the Export Development Act to prohibit Export Development Canada from providing support to the oil and gas sector.
- Strengthening Bill C-12 - Canadian Net-Zero Emissions Accountability Act to ensure strong climate-related financial disclosure for federal agencies and crown corporations.
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Policies or Program, Regulation
- COVID-19 blue-green economic recovery: advocating for COVID-19 responses that promotes natural infrastructure and water stimulus. Advocating for a recovery plan that retains or enhances existing environmental laws. Advocating for stimulus funding that enhances environmental conservation, with additional benefits to human well being.
- Canada Water Act: Exploring potential for renewal of legislation to strengthen federal role in fresh water management.
- Fisheries Act: Seeking strengthening of habitat protections, incorporation of sustainability principles, and legal obligations to rebuild depleted fish stocks.
- Navigation Protection Act - Process for restoring lost protection and incorporate modern safeguards to the Navigation Protection Act, and to any related regulation and policy, in accordance with Mandate Letter issued to the Minister of Transportation.
- Navigation Protection Act: Seeking a return to protections for all navigable waters.
- Process for restoring lost protection and incorporate modern safeguards to the Fisheries Act, and to any related regulation and policy, in accordance with Mandate Letter issued to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans.
- The creation of a Canada Water Agency, the creation of the Federal Freshwater Action Plan (a $1-billion dollar investment in freshwater over 5 - 10 years, known as FWAP) and the renewal of the Canada Water Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. C-11)
Legislative Proposal, Bill or Resolution, Regulation
- Advocate for reforms to the charity sector through changes to the Income Tax Act and CRA regulations
Policies or Program
- -Updating Canada’s Federal Water Policy of 1987 to better support how fresh water is governed and how the health of Canada’s freshwater ecosystems can be improved.
-The benefits of updating the Canada Water Actof 1970 to support freshwater health across Canadaand the federal government’s role in supporting healthy fresh water across the country.
-Including priorities identified by the Our Living Waters Network in the formation of the Canada Water Agency-which is referred to in the mandate letter issued to the Minister of Environment and
Climate Change Canadaby the Prime Minister.
- Advocacy regarding reversal of decision to suspend Canada Post services in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.
- Advocating establishment of a Canada Water Agency
- Discussing engaging pension fund beneficiaries and supporting pension fund managers to be a part of the transition to a low-carbon economy to achieve the inextricably linked goals of pension wealth and planet health. Sharing research and discussing new laws and programs that various states and governments have been passing related to this area.
- Discussing financial investment by the federal government through economic stimulus in watershed projects in British Columbia as opportunity for economic recovery and employment generation
- Enhance federal policy on climate-related financial disclosure and action.
- Federal budget commitments to match the Province of BC's $27million investment in watersheds as part of their economic recovery plan and a Federal government investment in a BC Watershed Security Fund.
- Increase the involvement of marginalized people in public consultation processes
- Infrastructure investment to improve water quality; Offer feedback and ideas on how infrastructure investment could improve water quality
- Nature-based solutions to build back better: 1) Renewing Disaster Mitigation and Adaptation Funding program and reserving 25% of funding for "Green Infrastructure" projects, and 2) Instituting a new dedicated Natural Infrastructure Fund that would invest $500 million over the next five years the development, implementation and evaluation of natural infrastructure projects across the country.
- Pan Canadian national water quality strategy; Explore concept and how to set up pan Canadian water strategy
- Policies related to the integration of water health into food and agricultural policy, including but not limited to the development of a new Food Policy Framework for Canada.
- Policies related to the reduction of phosphorous in Canadian lakes, including but not limited to the Lake Erie Phosphorus Reduction Plan.
- Promoting inclusion of people with lived experience in the development of policies and programs addressing the causes, impacts, and solutions to homelessness.
- The Government of Canada's commitment to end direct international public finance for fossil fuel projects (the Glasgow Pledge).
- To provide ECCC and its minister with strategic advice and innovative solutions to advance progress under the Department's nature mandate priorities.
Regulation
- Draft regulatory guidance on novel foods & draft guidance on which plants are subject to Part 5 of the Seeds Regulations
- Health Canada's development of new regulatory guidance on novel foods and "Consultation: Proposed new guidance for Novel Food Regulations focused on plant breeding" regarding safety assessments for genetically engineered foods
- Participation in consultations on OSFI’s discussion paper Navigating Uncertainty in Climate Change: Promoting Preparedness and Resilience to Climate-Related Risks in formal written submissions, including follow-up with OSFI to clarify and strengthen resulting federally regulated financial institutions.