$75 for both workshops on Zoom Meeting (camera and audio enabled)
March 4, 2025, 1-3pm ET
March 5, 2025, 1-2pm ET
*Please note, all registrants will be provided with a link to the recording and presentation slides following each session. The recordings and slides will be available for 60 days.
March 4, 2025, 1-3pm ET
This workshop will cover the rules that apply to the messaging and activities of not-for-profits and registered charities during the 2025 Canadian federal election. We will discuss how the Canada Elections Act may apply to an organization’s issue-based campaigns and what this may mean for your communications and donors. We’ll also go over the types of activities that are regulated during a snap election, as well as in the lead up to a fixed date election. The CRA’s approach to the activities of charities will also be covered as well as the rules that apply to phoning voters during a federal election. This workshop will not cover other CRTC rules or privacy laws that may apply to communications with the public.
At the end of this workshop, your organization will be equipped to decide which campaigns and activities to engage in during the federal election and whether you will register with Elections Canada as a third party.
March 5, 2025, 1-2pm ET
This workshop will cover the third party rules that apply to not-for-profits or registered charities that engage in messaging or activity that is regulated under the Canada Elections Act during the 2025 federal election. We will discuss how contributions and expenses are regulated and how to value, record, and report these to Elections Canada. We’ll also go over the rules for election advertising and how to avoid (or address, if necessary) complaints as a registered third party. The thresholds and deadlines for registering and filing various reports with Elections Canada will be covered. At the end of this workshop, your organization will be ready to register as a third party and prepared to deal with election-related contributions and expenses.
Our Presenter:
Rachel Roy is a partner at Allevato Quail & Roy, a union-side labour law firm, where she specializes in election and campaign finance law. Rachel joined AQR Law after working as in-house counsel for Canada’s NDP during the 2015 federal election. Rachel provides legal advice and assistance to progressive organizations to ensure their campaigns comply with electoral, privacy and CRTC rules at the local, provincial and federal levels. She is an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Professional for Canada.
Rachel is passionate about democratic governance. She assists member-based organizations and First Nations with internal governance matters and elections, including adjudication of complaints or appeals and by fulfilling the role of chief electoral officer.
Session 1: Settler Colonialism 101
Introduce ENGO representatives to the fact that colonization is a structure and not an event. Identifies key ways that colonialism moves through individuals and organizations.
Session 2: Positionality
ENGO representatives learn how to articulate their social location within a settler colonial state, and in relation to potential Indigenous partners.
Session 3: Inherent Indigenous Governance 101
Introduce the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues. Examples provided.
Session 4: Building Better Relations
ENGO representatives will road test ways they can implement previous workshop key points to re-imagine partnerships with Indigenous nations.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
Session 1: Diagnosing Settler Colonialism in the Enviro Sector
Participants will be asked to share ways in which they have diagnosed and traced power in social justice movements and/or in the ENGO sector. This workshop will make space for discomfort as part of promoting decolonization.
Session 2: Inherent Indigenous Governance
A mix of advanced and introductory theory, this workshop delves into legal and political pluralism, naming the fact that Indigenous nations have their own sources of political authority that they can (and do) draw on when addressing environmental issues.
Session 3: The Nonprofit Industrial Complex
ENGO participants are introduced to theories and examples describing the Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the “Shadow State.” Purpose is to show how settler colonialism structures civil society.
Session 4: Decolonizing ENGO-First Nation Partnerships
This workshop delves deep into how ENGOs can partner with Indigenous nations beyond the Nonprofit Industrial Complex while promoting deference to inherent Indigenous political leaders.
Cost: $100 (or register 4 staff from the same organization for one stream and get the 5th registration free)
All registrants will be provided with a link to access the recordings and presentation slides for 60 days following each session.
The Indigenous only space will be collaborative in nature but critical in approach. This track is a space for Indigenous folks within the ENGO sector to come together to discuss their experiences and work, with an eye to taking a position on what the sector might need to do in order to promote decolonization. Participants will use the first session to define our goals for the remaining three meetings. Therefore, session topics named here are proposals only.
Session 1: Naming the Cannibal: Settler Colonialism in the ENGO Sector
Session 2: Proposed topic: Reflections on working in the ENGO Sector
Session 3: Proposed topic: Centering Indigenous Thought in the ENGO Sector
Session 4: Proposed topic: Visioning a Decolonial Environmental Sector
Cost: Free
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