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 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.
Join our campaign on Palestine and Israel - A Cry for Home
Stories
- Ottawa Office Blog: "Imaging Peace 30 years after the Berlin Wall" by Leona Lortie, November 13, 2019
- Ottawa Office Blog: "Life behind the economic blockade in Gaza - Part 1" by MCC Staff, November 6, 2019
- Ottawa Office Blog: "Living in Harmony" by Lily Mast, October 30, 2019
- Ottawa Office Blog: "Gaza's On-going Mental Health Crisis" by Paul Parker, October 23, 2019
- Ottawa Office Blog: "Gaza's On-going Mental Health Crisis" by Paul Parker, October 23, 2019
- Ottawa Office Blog: "Peace to end conflict-related hunger" by Nyambura Githaiga, October 16, 2019
- Ottawa Office e-newsletter: "My neighbour and the federal election" October 2019
- Ottawa Office Blog: "My neighbour and the federal election" by Rebekah Sears, October 9, 2019
- Ottawa Office Blog: "Prayers for the Earth: Lament and Confession" by Mat Lortie, October 2, 2019
- Ottawa Office Blog: "Climate Change: The Discussion as a Detour" by Myriam Ullah, September 25, 2019
- Ottawa Office e-newsletter: "Voting for Peace and Justice" September 2019
- Ottawa Office Blog: "Voting for Peace and Justice" by Rick Cober Bauman, September 11, 2019
- Ottawa Office Blog: "The Starfish Parable" by Brian Dyck, September 4, 2019
- Ottawa Office Blog: "Transforming Honduras through ‘conversations flavoured with hope’" by Blanca Munguía, August 28, 2019
- Ottawa Office Blog: "The Political is Personal, embodied in paper cranes" by Rebekah Sears, August 14, 2019
- Ottawa Office e-newsletter: "42nd Parliament wraps up" July/August 2019
- Ottawa Office blog: "From Crisis to Opportunity: Global pathways for refugee resettlement" by Brian Dyck, National Resettlement and Migration Coordinator for MCC Canada, July 31, 2019
- Ottawa Office blog: "Clarity Needed on Military Use of AI" by Branka Marijan, Senior Researcher with Project Ploughshares, July 17, 2019