Advocacy
CARP launches a national policy platform
IN ANTICIPATION OF THE 2019 federal election, CARP unveiled its national policy platform, The FACES of Canada’s Seniors: Making Canada the Best Place to Age at a launch event in October at its Zoomerplex head office in Toronto.
The new platform, which was developed with input from CARP chapters and consultation with seniors groups and older Canadians at the grassroots level, identifies five areas that CARP will focus its lobbying efforts on for 2019: financial secur- ity; abuse prevention; caregiving and housing supports; exceptional health care; and social inclusion.
The FACES platform is timely because of next year’s vote. “Leading up to next year’s federal election, we’ll be pushing the government and all parties to commit to measurable improvements in five areas,” said Wanda Morris, CARP’s chief advocacy and engagement officer.
“We wanted to speak not just to our CARP members but to those who struggle, for those who don’t have a voice,” said Morris. “The platform includes recommendations for those who are low income, homeless, suffer from elder abuse or live in isolation.”
“We can make Canada the best place to age,” said Laura Tamblyn Watts, chief public policy officer at CARP. “It’s time government takes decisive action by implementing a National Seniors Strategy that addresses these five critical areas.”
To view the FACES platform, go to