2006 Federal Election

January 22, 2006

Election Countdown

Think, Ask, Vote
Before you cast your vote, ask yourself if the candidate and party you support are committed to:

• promoting human rights and workers’ rights;
• protecting and improving federal public services;
• enacting pay equity law;
• taking steps to ensure quality child care is available when parents need it;
• making sure that medicare is equally available to all Canadians, regardless of their income;
• working to end poverty.

January 20, 2006

Election Countdown

Think, Ask, Vote
This election is about making better choices. Governments can choose to give tax breaks that benefit the richest Canadians or use our tax dollars to provide high quality public services to all who live in Canada. Think about these better choices. Then cast your vote.

January 19, 2006

Election Countdown

Think, Ask, Vote
PSAC members are the people behind our public services. We inspect food, help seniors and the unemployed, protect our national parks, operate search and rescue and provide hundreds of federal services everyday to Canadians across the country.

This election, think about how federal public services affect you and what the political parties will do to protect and improve them for working people and their families. Then cast your vote.

January 10, 2006

Federal election campaign update

Ask the candidates running in your riding if they pledge to support Make Poverty History.

Federal Election campaign update

The PSAC is just one of many unions and progressive groups putting their issues forward to the candidates during the federal election.

The Canadian Labour Congress has recently launched its “Better Choice” campaign, focusing on the issues of health care, pay equity, pensions, education and training, jobs and anti-scab legislation.

In the last Parliament, women made up less than one-quarter of the Members of Parliament. “Still in Shock” is the Coalition for Women’s Equality’s latest report on politicians’ broken promises. Check out their web site showing why women’s equality remains an election issue.

Not sure where you vote? Haven’t received any information from Elections Canada? Want to know when the polls will be open on election day in your province? Find the answers to these questions and much, much more on the Elections Canada web site. Just put in your postal code and find out when and where to vote and get a complete list of the candidates in your riding.

It’s time to Think, Ask, Vote…again!

Less than two years after the last federal election, Canadians are going to the polls again on January 23.  Candidates in 308 ridings across the country are competing for your vote. 

Federal elections provide an opportunity for Canadians to review where the candidates and their parties stand on the issues.   As a guide to the 2006 federal election, PSAC has prepared a series of leaflets on some issues that are important to our members.  Issues such as pay equity and labour rights; issues that often don’t receive the attention they deserve during an election campaign.

Each issue leaflet focuses on an issue providing some background information, the positions of the parties where available and questions that can be used to find out where your candidates stand when they come looking for your vote.  Check them out. 

PSAC members are also organizing regionally during this campaign.  If you want to participate, call your nearest PSAC regional office.