The Speech from the Throne to open the second session of the thirty-seventh Parliament of Canada (2002): Speech and responses.

On September 30, 2002, the Governor General of Canada read the Speech from the Throne to open and set the agenda for the new session of Parliament. The following are links to the text of the speech and to selected responses from the child care and social policy community (set in alphabetical order by title)

TEXT OF THE SPEECH

Speech from the Throne
SOURCE: Government of Canada
Link to general website.

Speech from the Throne: Helping children and families out of poverty
SOURCE: Government of Canada
Text of section of Speech.

Address by Prime Minister Jean Chrétien in reply to the Speech from the Throne
SOURCE: Prime Minister of Canada [website]
Fulltext of speech.

RESPONSES

Activist agenda set out in throne speech
SOURCE: CBC report.

Articulation of "quality child care" is music to our ears
SOURCE: Canadian Child Care Federation
Press release.

Back up child poverty promises with real money, PM urged
SOURCE: Campaign 2000
Press release

CCSD's checklist of key commitments in the Speech from the Throne
SOURCE: Canadian Council on Social Development
Checklist.

Future of child care and Chretien legacy: Both still unclear!
SOURCE: Ontario Coalition for Better Child Care
Press release.

Response to the Speech from the Throne
SOURCE: Child Care Advocacy Association of Canada
Press release.

Social policy that works: An agenda
SOURCE: Caledon Institute for Social Policy
Report in pdf.

Throne speech pleases mayors, not child-care advocates
SOURCE: CBC
Report.

With a little help from your friends
by Marcel Lauzière and John Anderson
SOURCE: Canadian Council on Social Development
Op-Ed piece.

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