Getting around the F word

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Getting aroundthe F - word

• Tapping into the Passion of Young Women
• to Make a Difference
• Commonwealth Women Parliamentarians
• July 18, 2009

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Barbara Rogers

• The time has come for
• many of us when politics has become too
  important to leave to the men only.

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Thats an excellent suggestion, Ms. Triggs.
Perhaps one of the men here would like to make
it.
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Men in Black
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• Empowered patients
• Effective advocates
• Engaged citizens

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• Non Quo Sed Quo Modo .
• Not what we do, but how
• Patient as Partner
• Social Determinants of Health
• Poverty, Violence, Environment, Shelter, Equity,
  Education
• Doctor Multidisciplinary
• Hospital Community

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Sir Michael MarmotChair, WHO Commission on
Social Determinants of Health

• The worst thing for a physician is to help
  someone get well and then send them straight back
  into the situation that made them sick in the
  first place

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MDs in politics a good idea

• Ask people whats wrong listen
• Opening a chart and helping people through a
  system
• Very few issues of public policy that havent
  been through our office
• Small business loans
• Child custody access
• Young offenders
• Of course health determinants
• Poverty,Violence,Environment
• rather be working - PWD

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Peter C. Newman
Politics in Canada has always been the art of
making the necessary possible.

Deciding what s necessary is
POLITICAL
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Good public policy is developed when the
policy-makers can keep in their minds eye the
people affected.
Jane Jacobs
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Paternalism has been a total failure
Nellie Cornoyea, Speaking Together 1975
First Woman Premier, NWT
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Feminist Theory Ursula Franklin

• Inclusive decision-making
• Horizontal structures
• Good governance
• Fair
• Transparent
• Takes People Seriously

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women think differently
XYZ
?? ?? ?What if? ? ???
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Women ask directions !
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Men dont !!!!!
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Complex Solutions

• For every complex human problem, there is a
  neat simple solution. It is just that its wrong
  !
• H.L.Mencken
• We must fiercely defend the need for complex
  solutions for complex problems..
• Progressive movements needs much simple language.

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Attitude
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• Knowledgeable Stakeholders
• Committed Politicians
• Better Public Policy

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Day on Women in Politics

• Politicians
• Activists
• Media
• Doris Anderson ... PR
• Motivation
• Graduates

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The F- word

• Feminism
• Also POLITICS
• Explained.. Like Religion vs Spirituality
• Discomfort with POLITICS may be overcome by
  working within democracy or making a
  difference paradigm

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Womens InstituteAdelaide Hoodless

• Having bread wrapped
• White line painted on centre of provincial
  highways
• Garment labelling quality
• Music on school curiculum
• Fowl graded for sale
• Gettting the legal marriage age 16 with parents
  consent
• Law mandatory to stop when school bus is stopped
• Hot lunches in schools
• TB tests for food handlers
• Sex education in schools
• Poison containers clearly marked
• Pasteurization of milk

A nation cannot rise above the level of its
homes, we women must work and study
together to raise our homes to the highest level
possible.
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D

• Finally, if women had more say in
  how the
  world was run, we wouldnt ne
  worrying about the next quarters profit picture,
  or whether Moodys is going to award us an A
  rating. Our priorities would be more focused and
  practical than that. We would be thinking of
  nothing less than the future of the planet and
  its inhabitants for the next millenium.
• Isnt it time that women stopped holding up half
  the sky and began making as least half the
  decisions right down here on earth ?

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Doris AndersonUnfinished Revolution

• What women want is so simple and just. How can
  anything so sensible take so long to accomplish ?

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Making a Difference

• NGOs
• Professional Organizations
• Media
• Electoral Politics

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Players

• Canadians
• Patient
• Advocate
• Citizen
• Government
• Professionals

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Underestimating our power. Well- meaning
fatalism. What can we do?
Michael Ignatieff
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Feel our strength. We cant go back to some
nostalgic paradise in the past.
Michael Ignatieff
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Three mistakes
1. Stop talking like victims 2.
Stop assuming we all agree 3. Stop
underestimating our strength.
Michael Ignatieff
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McGill

Women in House

• CBC interview
• Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral

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Womens Caucus

• Parallel. Womens Advisory Committee
• Maureen Kempston Darkes , GM
• Audit Women moving through the organization
• Product Women will buy her cars
• Men
  allowed !!!

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All Party women caucus

• Hx - Xmas, bathroom
• Family Friendly
• Intl. Sima Simar Afghanistan

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On the Hill Glass ceilings

• Women in the Media

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Thinking Womens Brain Spa

• Making a difference
• Doing things differently
• Getting the Credit
• GOAL .. 1/3 Post Charter Women

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Harry S. Truman

• It is amazing what you
• can accomplish if you do not care who gets the
  credit. ?????? Only the women have read this
  ????
• taken this to heart
  ???

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Indira Gandhi

• There are 2 groups of people those that do the
  work and those who take the credit
• I have always preferred to be in the former group
  because there is less competition

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Mentoring

• 2 way
• Friends in all generations
• Ursula
• Doris
• Monique, Judy
• Lyn McLeod
• Mary Eberts, Marilou my age
• Siobhan Coady, Kirsty Duncan
• Briony Penn
• Tricia Geddes, Sinead Tuite, Vanessa Webb, Chi
  Ngyuen, Moneen Nasmith

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Stories.

• Resolution
• Golf. Grand mere
• Chretien episode.

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• A politician thinks of the next election,
• a statesman thinks of the next generation
• James Freeman Clarke

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Rx Civic ParticipationIts good for your health

• Physical and mental energy comes from
• feeling in control of your life,
• having real choices,
• and being involved with others
  
• to find ways of organizing
  change for the better
• Barbara Rogers

BONUS !!!!!!!!