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This page provides a number of links and other
information on law reform activities that our clinic, as well as others,
are involved in.
For the most current news headlines on law reform issues,
click on the Law Reform News
button at the top of this page. Also, visit our new law reform
page on Poverty Reduction.
Make poverty history campaign
CLEONet Website
Advocacy Centre for
Tenants Ontario (ACTO)
Low Income Energy Network
(LIEN)
ODSP
Action Coalition
Income Security Advocacy Centre
PovNet
Ontario Project for
Inter-Clinic Community Organizing (OPICCO)
Write to your MPP or MP
Law
Commission of Canada
List Serves
you can join
CLEONET Latest Additions:
Campaign and Law Reform
Visit their website at
www.makepovertyhistory.ca
for more information. Please also visit
www.campaign2000.ca for more
information on ending child poverty in Canada.
CLEONet is an online clearinghouse for community legal education in
Ontario. It is a project of
Community Legal
Education Ontario (CLEO). CLEONet is funded by
The Law
Foundation of Ontario. It has an easily searchable collection
of hundreds of resources and news items on a wide range of legal topics,
in a number of languages, that are produced by legal clinics and
community organizations across Ontario. CLEONet has its own page
on law reform called
Campaigns and Law Reform. It includes resources related to law
reform campaigns and to community development and organizing around
legal issues.
In
consultation with legal aid clinics and tenant/housing advocacy groups,
ACTO is setting priorities for the law reform and advocacy work that
will have a broad impact on the housing issues facing low-income
tenants, co-op members and homeless persons.
This site by the
Low Income Energy Network is designed primarily to share information
with the Network about LIEN's activities, and activities of its members
on issues related to addressing the energy needs of Ontario's low-income
households and energy issues.
The
ODSP Action Coalition is made up of
community clinic caseworkers, agency staff, and community activists.
They undertake campaigns and activities designed to raise awareness of
issues affecting persons in receipt of Ontario Disability Support
Program ("ODSP") benefits.
The ODSP Action Coalition was formed in 2002 as a coalition of lawyers,
community workers and consumers. The coalition is leading the campaign
to document and publicize problems with ODSP and has engaged in lobbying
and advocacy to encourage solutions to those problems.
The
Income Security Advocacy Centre works with and on behalf of low income
communities in Ontario to address issues of income security and poverty.
The Centre initiates and conducts test case and Charter litigation, law
reform and community development related to federal and provincial
income security programs such as Ontario Works, the Ontario Disability
Support Program, Employment Insurance and the Canada Pension Plan.
PovNet is an internet site for advocates, people on
welfare, and community groups and individuals involved in anti-poverty
work. It provides up-to-date information about welfare and housing laws
and resources in British Columbia and Canada. PovNet links to current
anti-poverty issues and also provides links to other anti-poverty
organizations and resources in Canada and internationally.
PovNet now has
live news
feeds on its website -- this means that you can click on the news
feeds section on the right hand side of the web site and then go to any
of the categories below to get up-to-the second news.
The
OPICCO site
was created to provide community organizations &
community legal clinics in Ontario with tools for organizing.
Visit
www.ontla.on.ca and click "members" to find out who is your Member of Provincial Parliament
(MPP). You can click "Current MPP's" to get an list which you can
sort by riding or you can do a
Postal Code search to find the electoral district for your postal
code. You can also call 1-800-677-8683, TTY: 1-888-292-2312.
The MPP for Prince Edward-Hastings is
Leona Dombrowsky.
The MPP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington is
Randy Hillier
The MPP for Northumberland-Quinte West is
Lou Rinaldi
To
find your federal Member of Parliament (MP)
click here.
The MP for Prince Edward-Hastings is
Daryl Kramp
The MP for Lanark-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington is
Scott Reid
The MP for Northumberland-Quinte West is
Rick Norlock
View this
Lobby Tip Sheet (PDF format, 24 kb, 2 pgs) created by Jennifer
Ramsay of the Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario (ACTO) for tips on
lobbying your MPP.
Protocol for writing to MPPs:
The Premier
Cabinet Minister
The
Honourable Dalton McGuinty
The Honourable [name]
Premier of Ontario
Minister of [name of ministry]
Queen's Park
Rm
281, Main Legislative Building
Dear Minister:
Toronto, ON M7A 1A4
Dear Premier McGuinty:
...
MPP
Mr./Ms. [name], MPP
[name of riding]
Go
to the Osgoode Hall law school site to view/download Janet Mosher's
March 2005 report, prepared for the Law Commission of Canada, entitled "Welfare
Fraud: The Constitution of Social Assistance as Crime."
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This site provides general information only,
specific to Ontario, Canada. It is
NOT legal advice. 
