Ongoing Advocacy

Interested in advocating for the importance of physical activity and active living? Here is a list of things you can do:

• Take a moment to review the membership information on this website and sign on to become a CAL member or partner.
• Encourage the organization you represent to become a CAL member or partner.
• Encourage others to visit CAL’s website and consider membership.
• Spend an hour or two reviewing CAL’s Pan-Canadian Physical Activity Strategy (PCPAS). With an increased understanding of the issues you will be better able to advocate for change.
• Contact your local Member of Parliament . Encourage MPs to do their part by "resolving" to shape up your community, province or country by supporting activities that ensure that the environments, in which we live, learn, work, commute and play support regular physical activity. Specifically, ask them to support one or all of the following:
• Mandatory daily physical education and opportunities for children and youth;
• More funds for health promotion;
• Workplace policies that support physical activity;
• Access to programs and services appropriate for all citizens regardless of socio-economic status, age, ability race or culture;
• Communications activities that remind us to be active; and
• Funds that support infrastructure from new facilities to simply keeping sidewalks clear of snow!

How to contact your local Member of Parliament

1. Go to www.parl.gc.ca
2. Under "Current Parliamentarians," enter your postal code in the designated box and click "Find." "Current Parliamentarians," enter your postal code in the designated box and click "Find."
3. Contact your local MP using the contact information provided for both the parliamentary address and the constituency address.

Here is a sample letter developed by CAL. Feel free to use it as a foundation to any letters you would like to write yourself.

Letters: We speak out for physical activity!

Click on the links below to see the letters CAL sent out as part of its ongoing advocacy.

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