BPW clubs tackle national issues
Penticton Herald
04 Aug 2006

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Members of the Penticton Business and Professional Women's Club attended the recent 40th Biennial Convention of the Canadian Federation of BPW Clubs, held in Toronto.

Delegates passed an emergency resolution urging Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his government to listen to the views of the majority of Canadians, and to implement a national childcare program that meets the early childhood development needs of children, families and communities in this country.

Delegates also endorsed the Code Blue Campaign for Childcare, which has as its objective winning the restoration of multi-year federal funding to the provinces to start putting in place a comprehensive, universal, high-quality system for early learning and childcare.

Founded in 1930, BPW Canada's mandate is to improve the economic, political, employment and social conditions for women in Canada. Its convention, held every second year, brought together delegates from across the country as well as observers and international representatives from Jamaica, England, the Netherlands and New York. ..