Policy Recommendations – CCFWE

Policy Recommendations

Policy Recommendations

Federal Pre-Budget Submission 2025 (August, 2025)
CCFWE Letter – Coordinated Action on Cuts to WAGE Funding (July 31, 2025)
Policy Brief: Utility Justice and Affordability Support for Women Facing Financial Abuse in Alberta (July 25, 2025)
CCFWE Housing Brief – Ensuring Safe and Secure Housing for Survivors of Economic Abuse (July, 2025)
Submission to Neha Review Panel on the Right to Housing for Women and Making Government’s Accountable (March, 2025)
Written Submission for the study on Gender-Based Violence and Femicides in Canada (Oct 30, 2024)
Submission to the Federal Standing Committee on the Status of Women (FEWO) about considerations on criminalizing coercive controlling behaviour (June 20, 2024)
CCFWE’s calls to action on provincial and territorial governments to include survivors’ economic safety and security within their activities under the National Action Plan to end GBV (June 7, 2024) English Version I French Version
Federal Budget 2024 Statement by Canadian Center for Women’s Empowerment (April 17, 2024)
Support for ON Bill 173, the Intimate Partner Violence Epidemic Act, 2024 (April 10, 2024)
Submission to FCAC on Updating Canada’s Low-Cost and No-Cost Banking Services Commitment (December 22, 2023)
Submission to FCAC – Predatory lending practices and Economic Abuse (November 30, 2023)
Urgent Call to Action for the UN Commission on the Status of Women to Address Economic Abuse (November 26, 2023)
The House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women Study in Women’s Economic Empowerment (November 6, 2023)
Submission on the Creation of a Potential Coercive Control Offence in the Context of Intimate Relationships (October 23, 2023)
Submission to the National Housing Council on the financialization of housing (September 8, 2023)
Declaring Gender-Based Violence and Intimate Partner Violence an Epidemic in the City of Toronto (August 3, 2023)
Pre-Budget Consultations in Advance of the Upcoming Federal Budget 2024 (August 2, 2023)
CCFWE Executive Director’s Speech on the Public Hearing of Bill 41 (Protection from Coerced Debt in relation to Human Trafficking) at the Legislative Assembly of Ontario (July 10, 2023)
Submission on Bill 41 – Protection from Coerced Debts Incurred in relation to Human Trafficking Act, 2023 (June 26, 2023)
CCFWE Economic Abuse Prevention Policy Position Paper (June, 2023)
Impacts of financialization of housing on women fleeing domestic abuse (May 16, 2023)
Submission to the House of Commons – Economic Abuse Issue Brief – Status of Women Committee Invites on Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence in Canada (March 16, 2022)
Policy Recommendations for Banks, Credit Unions and Financial Institutions on Addressing Economic Abuse in the Context of Gender-Based Violence in Canada (July 15, 2021)
Submission for Financial Consumer Agency of Canada on Complaint-Handling Procedures for Banks and Authorized Foreign Banks (July 8, 2021)
13 Policy Recommendations from consultations to inform Canada’s National Action Plan to end GBV (February, 2021)