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Help Step it Up! remind Ontario political Parties to remember women and children when they campaign for election. Block our "Be a Mothers' Party" on the next page (click 'Read more' below) and email it to the leaders of all Parties in Ontario that want your vote in October. Or write your own version and send it off to the Parties. You can find information about what they can do to help mothers in the above backgrounder: Make Every Day Mother's Day. Sign your name, tell them where you live and let them know you will be voting! Here are some contact links for the Ontario Party Leaders: Liberal Leader, Dalton McGuinty https://www.premier.gov.on.ca/feedback/feedback.asp Progressive Conservative Party Leader, John Tory
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New Democratic Party Leader, Howard Hampton
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Green Party Leader, Frank DeJong
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Mother’s Day ‘07 or, Be a Mothers’ ‘Party’ On Mother’s Day, ‘07 What will you give to showYour mother that you love her And want the world to know? What will you give your daughters To let them know you care About the world in which they live And grandchildren they’ll bear? All NDPers and all Greens All Grits and PC reps What platform will you offer That will welcome our “10 Steps” Dalton, Howard, John and Frank Will you please stop and think About the families who each day Have little food or drink? When you stand before the cameras And hold your children’s hands Will you reflect upon the children Who arrive from other lands? Will you help their mothers to believe They’ve found a better place Which appreciates the differences Of gender and of race? Will you protect the vulnerable And make your mother proud? Will you chose the path that leads you Beyond the maddening crowd? Will you acknowledge that a woman Has the right to seek redress And give her back the voice Which violence suppressed? Dalton, Howard, John and Frank On this your Mother’s Day We challenge you, be honourable, Let women have their say! |
