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New Brunswick Chapter

Equal Voice New Brunswick (EVNB) has had a busy spring. As the membership continues to grow (90+), we have issued our first challenge to provincial leaders and co-hosted an extremely successful training session. Media interest and membership continues to grow.

The EVNB Challenge 2010 focuses on the upcoming provincial election on September 27, 2010. We sent letters directly to party leaders and issued the challenge publicly through the media. Media coverage was extremely high (with hits in all of the dailies, CBC and many local radio stations) and all party leaders responded with a commitment to recruiting more women candidates. At present, all parties are on track to match or increase the numbers of female candidates over the 2006 numbers. We will continue to monitor and report on the final numbers of female candidates.

Be Her or Support Her was a workshop co-hosted with the NB Advisory Council on the Status of Women in early May. Patricia Dumas conducted an amazing interactive session that was extremely well attended with 70+ women from across the province and all party affiliations were represented. Several nominated provincial candidates, former members and future candidates took part. Three women attended from St. Mary’s First Nation who went on to make history in June by becoming part of the first council in the Band’s history to be comprised of 50% women.

EVNB members have also spoken at a variety of events across the province including the NB Political Youth Summit, 21 Leaders Inc., Women in Leadership Conference and the International Women’s Day 2010 Celebrations.

EV welcomes New Brunswick as a fully ratified chapter of Equal Voice. The co-chair, Lisa Merrithew, is a long time political activist in New Brunswick and currently serves as Director of Corporate Affairs for Bell Aliant. EV New Brunswick has a strong steering committee and an ambitious agenda. Equal Voice is excited to work with this new chapter on any future projects.

A local chapter of Equal Voice in New Brunswick has recently been launched! Equal Voice is a multi-partisan action group dedicated to increasing the political presence of women and women elected to all levels of political office in Canada.

For further information or to join, please contact Lisa Merrithew at lisa.merrithew@gmail.com. 506-485-0097

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