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 e-newsletter: "Advocacy for People on the Move" April 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Community-led advocacy" by Nate Howard, April 15, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Bethlehem and COVID-19" by Paul Parker, April 8, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "COVID-19: "An Opportunity to Rediscover Ourselves" by Oscar Rea Campos, April 2, 2020
- Ottawa Office Blog: "Love in a time of pandemic" by Anna Vogt, March 20, 2020
- Ottawa Office e-newsletter: "Love in a time of pandemic" March 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Women Peacemakers," March 12, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "In response to blockades: prayerful pause" by Rick Cober Bauman, February 26, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "The mortar of reconciliation in Ethiopia" by Brian Dyck, February 19, 2020
- Ottawa Office e-newsletter: "Canadian Policy on Palestine and Israel on Parliament Hill" February 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Postcolonial Relief, Development and Peace" by Timothy Seidel, February 12, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Reversing Polarization by sharing space" by Leona Lortie, February 5, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Book Review: Is Peace Possible?" by Paul Parker, January 29, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Connection as Sustainability" by Elisabeth Wilder, January 22, 2020
- Ottawa Office e-newsletter: "How Canadians can support sustainable peace in the Middle East" January 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "You are welcome here" by Anna Vogt, January 15, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "#MCC100Years: Human Rights as a Secular Path to Peace" by Ricardo Esquivia Ballestas, January 8, 2020
- Ottawa Office blog: "Justice and Citizen Diplomacy in the Desert" by Paul Parker, December 18, 2019