The Ottawa Office is MCC’s voice to the Canadian government, advocating for policies that support our work of relief, development and peacebuilding.
We also inform Canadians about political issues and how they can get involved.
Some of our work includes:
- Writing letters to government on issues such as foreign aid, mining, human rights and peacebuilding;
- Presenting oral and written testimony to parliamentary committees;
- The annual Ottawa Office Student Seminar (see information in French here) for Canadian university students on topics such as Indigenous rights, social justice or faith and public policy;
- Producing resources such as the annual Peace Sunday Packet, our Remembrance Day Resource for Teachers, and a World Refugee Day worship resource
Read the weekly Ottawa Office blog or check out our monthly e-newsletter.
Download our Advocacy Toolkit or our MCC Ottawa Office brochure.
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Stories
- Ottawa Office blog: "Peace: privilege, right and responsibility" by Royden Loewen
- Ottawa Office blog: "Cartography as reconciliation" by Randy Klassen
- Ottawa Office blog: "A turning point in treaty relationships" by Dianne Climenhage, October 9, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Peacebuilding in a changing climate" by Emily Jones, October 1, 2020
- Ottawa Office e-newsletter: "When Mennonites were banned" September 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Understanding justice through stories" by Val Napoleon, September 24, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Peace and Displacement" compiled by Rebekah Sears, September 16, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "When Mennonites were banned" by Brian Dyck, September 9, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "The triple nexus" by Nyambura Githaiga, September 2, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Churches for Climate action" by Jennifer Halteman Schrock, August 19, 2020
- Ottawa Office e-newsletter: "Prioritizing UN Declaration Legislation" July/August 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "75 years later: nuclear war and paper cranes" by Rebekah Sears, August 6
- Ottawa Office blog: "Mining and the UN Declaration" by Sue and Harley Eagle, July 21, 2020
- A Cry for Home Update, July 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Another world is possible" by Annalee Giesbrecht, July 8, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "A tool for justice and peace: human rights" by Bonnie Klassen and Adrienne Wiebe, June 29, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Being a good guest in an Indigenous land" by Kerry Saner Harvey, June 19, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Transforming foreign policy on world refugee day" by Anna Vogt, June 17, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "What is nature to you?" by Annalee Giesbrecht, June 3, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Who is my neighbour during the pandemic" by Brian Dyck, May 27, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Turning love into justice" by John D. Rempel, May 20, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Mental health and COVID-19" by Rebekah Sears, May 13, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Peacebuilding, peacekeeping and statebuilding" by Silke Groeneweg, April 29
- Ottawa Office e-newsletter: "Canada, human rights and Israel’s plans to annex significant parts of Occupied Palestine" May/June 2020